Posted on 10/14/2012 9:40:45 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The world stopped getting warmer almost 16 years ago, according to new data released last week.
The figures, which have triggered debate among climate scientists, reveal that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012,there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures.
This means that the ‘plateau’ or ‘pause’ in global warming has now lasted for about the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose,1980 to 1996. Before that, temperatures had been stable or declining for about 40 years.
The new data, compiled from more than 3,000 measuring points on land and sea, was issued quietly on the internet, without any media fanfare,and,until today,it has not been reported.
This stands in sharp contrast to the release of the previous figures six months ago,which went only to the end of 2010–a very warm year.
Ending the data then means it is possible to show a slight warming trend since 1997,but 2011 and the first eight months of 2012 were much cooler, and thus this trend is erased.
Some climate scientists, such as Professor Phil Jones,director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia,last week dismissed the significance of the plateau,saying that 15 or 16 years is too short a period from which to draw conclusions.
Others disagreed. Professor Judith Curry,who is the head of the climate science department at America’s prestigious Georgia Tech university, told The Mail on Sunday that it was clear that the computer models used to predict future warming were ‘deeply flawed’.
Even Prof Jones admitted that he and his colleagues did not understand the impact of ‘natural variability’–factors such as long-term ocean temperature cycles and changes in the output of the sun. However,he said he was still convinced that the current decade would end up significantly warmer than the previous two.
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It's an elephant described by people voluntarily wearing blinders.
Interesting picture and caption. I guess we will never know whether the person who wrote that caption was ignorant or intentionally deceptive. Certainly, most people who look at the picture would be easily deceived into thinking that was smoke.
LOL!
Real scientists don't debate 'facts'.
Thanks Cincinatus’ Wife.
It was just a way to distribute dollars to a few....
It would be interesting to see if anyone has a consistent record of temperatures , growing season dates and lengths in the Wino region....not sure if one of the Universities would be reputable enough to trust their records.
It would be interesting to see if anyone has a consistent record of temperatures , growing season dates and lengths in the Wino region....not sure if one of the Universities would be reputable enough to trust their records.
Real scientists are skeptics. These climate warming fanatics are not scientists. They are polemicists. They finesse data to comport with their thesis.
I was taught that scientists are always trying to disprove theories. By trying to disprove them they end up providing support for them.
Global warming science is the opposite. Global warming scientists are always trying to find ways to support the theory. When any contrary evidence is provided, these scientists work hard to discredit anything that would shed negatively on their precious theory.
DUH! My bill for winter clothing could prove that. I have to scrape the frost off of my TV screen to see the newest news on globull warming you keep talking about. Until palm trees and pineapples grow north of 45 degrees latitude outside of a greenhouse, these people are full of shit!.
The poor polar bears! They'll probably freeze to death or at least won't have anywhere to swim.
Oh, the humanity!
Wish I’d invented the “climate change is America’s fault” scam.
Hmm! It’s a wee bit warmer today than it was last year, or a hundred, or a thousand years ago! Evil Americans! Give me money!
Oh, dear! It’s a wee bit cooler today than it was last year, or a hundred, or a thousand years ago! Bad citizens! Cut me a check!
I think that sometime in the last five years or so, a well known statistician/physicist(?) made a well received commentary that 17 years was an appropriate “window” for comparing temperature records. We are approaching that now, for sure. The “normal” window used by old-time climate scientists (not the dopes we have now) was well established to be 30 years.
Anyway, we are getting close to having good satellite data now for either time frame, since we’ve been collecting it since the late ‘70’s
Faith is the substance of things hoped for; the evidence of things not seen.
He is a true believer (in a lie, of course).
Shhhhhhhhh. Be vewy vewy quiet. We'ew keeping sequets hewe.
More reason why we should never get our science from Al Gore...real scientists are debunking the Global Warming Myth everyday
GIM: Generation Investment Management LLP co-founders: [Al Gore and David Blood [headed Goldman’s $325 billion asset management division] LINKS to their advocacy and editorials.
"The $683 million "Climate Solutions Fund" piece of GIM has made direct, minority investments in a number of cleantech firms including SolarCity, Tigo, Ausra, and SMA." Source Oct. 4, 2012 "...........Gore entered the investment world full time by co-founding Generation Investment Management [GIM], a London-based investment firm. He was the type of high-profile partner sought by Goldman Sachs executive David Blood, who had headed Goldman’s $325 billion asset management division and was looking to start a new firm. The pair launched GIM in 2004 to back companies focused on sustainability, including clean energy, water scarcity and poverty....
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....Gore also found himself to be a sought-after star among elite Silicon Valley investors. In late 2007, he became a senior investment partner at one of the world’s most successful venture capital firms, Kleiner Perkins. He was combining forces with longtime friend John Doerr in a joint mission to spur clean tech.........
As Obama was preparing to take office, it was clear his public agenda supporting clean energy aligned with Gore’s personal agenda. Obama held a highly publicized meeting with Gore at transition headquarters in Chicago to talk about energy policy. Later, Obama closely echoed several of Gore’s talking points and his plan for public investment in clean energy. Obama even adopted Gore’s campaign catchphrase for the effort, “Repower America.”
“This is a matter of urgency and national security,” Obama said. “We have the opportunity now to create jobs all across this country in all 50 states to repower America, to redesign how we use energy and . . . make us competitive for decades to come — even as we save the planet.”.....
Gore’s investments coincided with the government’s largest investment in clean tech. A full 10 percent, estimated at $80 billion to $90 billion, of the 2009 stimulus package was devoted to clean energy.......
....Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), who chairs the Energy and Commerce Committee and is a leading critic of clean tech funding, said Gore’s portfolio “is reflective of a disturbing pattern that those closest to the president have been rewarded with billions of taxpayer dollars . . . and benefited from the administration’s green bonanza in the rush to spend stimulus cash.”......." Oct 10, 2012 [Washington Post]
I have no idea why the text in Post #39 is in red.
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