Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/25/2010 8:43:51 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
* Exact causes unknown for lack of warming from 1999-2008
* The underlying reason for cold winter not known
* Climate science in focus after email scandal, errors
By Gerard Wynn and Alister Doyle
LONDON/OSLO, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Climate scientists must do more to work out how exceptionally cold winters or a dip in world temperatures fit their theories of global warming, if they are to persuade an increasingly sceptical public.
At stake is public belief that greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet, and political momentum to act as governments struggle to agree a climate treaty which could direct trillions of dollars into renewable energy, away from fossil fuels.
Public conviction of global warming's risks may have been undermined by an error in a U.N. panel report exaggerating the pace of melt of Himalayan glaciers and by the disclosure of hacked emails revealing scientists sniping at sceptics, who leapt on these as evidence of data fixing.
Scientists said they must explain better how a freezing winter this year in parts of the northern hemisphere and a break in a rising trend in global temperatures since 1998 can happen when heat-trapping gases are pouring into the atmosphere.
"There is a lack of consensus," said Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, on why global temperatures have not matched a peak set in 1998, or in 2005 according to one U.S. analysis. For a table of world temperatures: [ID:nLDE6050Y5]
Part of the explanation could be a failure to account for rapid warming in parts of the Arctic, where sea ice had melted, and where there were fewer monitoring stations, he said.
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The Bankers want action so the propaganda continues...see the second link at post #34.
“”There is a lack of consensus,” said Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, on why global temperatures have not matched a peak set in 1998, or in 2005 according to one U.S. analysis.”
This is the guy who, in private in the climategate emails, called the failure of their models to predict the past 12 years temperatures was a “travesty.” And that the climate modelers really had no idea how to explain energy flows in the atmosphere.
No sh*t, Sherlock. At least you got that part right.
There has been a decided lack of consensus from the start, and that would have been evident if you did not treat the scientists who do not agree with you like the data that did not agree with AGW theories and models.
I remember a heat wave a decade ago in which two days out of a month almost reached the all time record high temperatures. That weather anomaly was proof of global warming. Now we have a cold winter in which we get all-time record snow with temperatures well below average, and what is that? A “pause” in global warming.
Thanks!!
Real Science has ceased to exist, and its been replaced by a monitary whore.
When the planet is warming is it considered a lull in the cooling...just wondering.
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AGW alarmists must do more to fabricate data how exceptionally cold winters or a dip in world temperatures fit their manipulated models of global warming, if they are to continue to defraud increasingly aware and informed, but gullible public. *** Corrected***
I just came back from Yosemite National Park and saw the Visitor’s Center.
A prominent plaque declares that manmade global warming is a coming catastrophe that may not be averted if we don’t act now.
Not 50 feet away was a monitor showing North America covered by glaciers some 16,000 years ago, and showing them progressively recede into northern Canada over a 16,000 year span of continuous, natural global warming.
I kid you not.
As if nobody is supposed to look at that 16,000 years of evidence of natural global warming when they consider man’s impact, or lack thereof, on the planet’s climate.
You are thinking too much,....not suppose to do that.
IOW we must be "saved" from our "sinful ways."
He is a "practicioner" like Jim Jones (of Jonestown) was.
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