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Study Finds No Pause in Global Warming
Wall Street Journal ^ | June 4, 2015 | By GAUTAM NAIK

Posted on 06/04/2015 3:41:37 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

A new $tudy concludes that the upward trend of global temperatures didn't slow this century, contrary to previous analyses that suggested the world is in the midst of a global warming hiatus.

That apparent slowdown—which computer models didn’t predict—has been seized upon by those who are skeptical about man-made climate change and sparked debate about how long the pause might last.

The latest $tudy, published Thursday in the journal $cience, suggests that previous research wasn’t accurate.

The empirical evidence for global warming, they add, isn’t reflected in temperature data alone but a range of other phenomena, including shrinking ice sheets, rising sea levels and warmer oceans.

Temperature data, however, remains a crucial barometer, and the new findings could prompt a re-evaluation.

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Perfect Response!


41 posted on 06/04/2015 4:48:44 PM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I was a professional scientist for over 30 years and I’ve never heard of anyone adjusting decades old data and using it to explain an anomaly. Not having read the article I dont know what rationale they used to make the adjustment. Instrument recalibration? How do you know the instruments needed recalibation or how far out of adjustment they were 20 years ago? I guess if you cant explain an anomaly just change the data and make it go away.


42 posted on 06/04/2015 5:11:58 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: Mycroft Holmes

LOL!


43 posted on 06/04/2015 5:15:31 PM PDT by PlateOfShrimp
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

44 posted on 06/04/2015 5:19:54 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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45 posted on 06/04/2015 5:19:58 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The delusion that Gender Derangement Disorder is not a mental illness is a mental illness in itself.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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46 posted on 06/04/2015 5:21:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The delusion that Gender Derangement Disorder is not a mental illness is itself a mental illness.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

When your lies don’t work... LIE HARDER!


47 posted on 06/04/2015 6:00:56 PM PDT by FiddlePig
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We keep giggling at crap like this....but it’s obvious that the media and the leftists in general have totally given up even trying to hide the lies and obfuscations. They, including Obola, are just letting ‘er rip with the most outrageous bs they can come up with. I mean, some of the crap Obola has spewed this week would have gotten any other president immediately committed. Are they that confident that the sheep are under the thumb?


48 posted on 06/04/2015 6:02:53 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; alrea; ...
Calling it warming implies it is all about temperature increase. The rising sea levels and shrinking ice sheets, to the extent that they're actually occurring, would be EFFECTS of the temperature change, if not from something else (increasing salinity, sinking land, etc.).

Somebody please slowly explain that to the people of Science in words of one syllable. Thank you.

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49 posted on 06/04/2015 6:03:22 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Brian Moore was an exemplary cop. Let his conduct be the example for Baltimore police to follow.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So warming isn’t reflected by temperature huh?


50 posted on 06/04/2015 6:51:06 PM PDT by vpintheak (Call the left what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Lack of rise in global temperatures cause by global warming.....


51 posted on 06/04/2015 7:00:05 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

RIGHT!

If your standards are too high, lower your standards!

We all MUST remember: LIEberals LIE!


52 posted on 06/04/2015 8:28:05 PM PDT by Taxman ( I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

I thought it was all about the hockey stick? Now its nothing to do with the hockey stick. Don’t even look at the sticks. :-) I wouldn’t care if it were clearly warming. Its good for the planet. We’d have more free water, warmer climates from poll to poll and more bioversity worldwide. These guys behave as if the world has never experienced radical climate shifts and that we should expect static steady climate. Taking 10 minutes looking at prehistoric climate tells you quickly that the climate we have today is NOT the norm but more of an exception however of course if they can get us rubes on board that can spend trillions of dollars and regulate everything even more from how many kids we can have to have much energy we can use to what size cars we can drive. This climate farce is like a socialist grab bag of opportunities to justify the most radical tyrannies in the name of the public good but then again the greatest horrors have been done in the name of the public good by marxists and their ilk. They’ve killed over 100 million innocents worldwide in their “peoples” movements and that isn’t even counting the babies.


53 posted on 06/04/2015 10:54:33 PM PDT by Maelstorm (America wasn't founded with the battle cry give me Liberty or cut me a government check!".)
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To: Uncle Miltie
Oh I heard about this on NPR! Its one of the funniest most far-fetched stories I've ever heard. Apparently the data that used to support a "warming hiatus" has decided to support the notion no longer. You see the global mean surface temperure is hard to take and appeared to increasing a lot less these last 20 years causing "skeptics" to use the data as a "ploy". Buoys have been doing it all wrong and need to be adjusted to tell the truth.

Scientists Cast Doubt On An Apparent 'Hiatus' In Global Warming JUNE 04, 2015 6:38 PM ET GEOFF BRUMFIEL A fully loaded container ship sails along the coast. Historically, ships have taken most of the sea measurements that go into the estimate of Earth's average surface temperature. A team of government scientists has revised its estimate for how much the planet has been warming. The new results, published in the journal Science, may dispel the idea that Earth has been in the midst of a "global warming hiatus" — a period over the past 20 years where the planet's temperature appears to have risen very little. "We think the data no longer supports the notion of having a hiatus," says Tom Karl, a scientist with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and co-author of the new study. SCIENCE Arctic Is Warming Twice As Fast As World Average If the entire problem of global warming could be summed up in a single number, that number would be the average temperature of the entire surface of the earth, land and sea, at a moment in time. It's also called the global mean surface temperature. During the 20th century, that number shot up. But then something happened. "Since about 1998, through to about 2013, the rate of increase was a lot less," says Kevin Trenberth, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. The slowdown was so dramatic that it appeared that global warming might have stopped altogether. Scientists called it the global warming hiatus. Skeptics of climate change have seized on the idea of the hiatus. "They're using this as a ploy to say, 'Oh, there is no global warming; we don't have to worry about climate change,'" Trenberth says. But few scientists have believed a hiatus meant climate change had stopped. Trenberth says the slower warming is, in part, caused by unusual currents in the Pacific Ocean. Others have cited volcanic activity. Now Karl's team, which is directly responsible for taking the Earth's temperature, says a technological shift in the way the measurements are taken has also obscured the temperature's climb. Here's why: The single number — average global temperature — comes from tens of thousands of independent temperature readings. And, in recent decades, the technology for getting those readings has gradually shifted. On land those measurements are made by weather stations; on the sea, the job has generally been done by commercial and military ships for decades. But starting in the 1980s, governments also began dropping buoys into the ocean to do independent measurements. Karl and his colleagues decided to look at stretches of water where ships pass very near buoys, in order to compare the two temperatures. And they made a surprising discovery. "The buoys actually read colder than the ships," Karl says. A buoy equipped to measure the sea's temperature drifts in the Pacific's California Current. NOAA Even though the two thermometers were in the same place, they gave different readings. And it was happening all over the world. As more buoys were dropped into the sea — all delivering measurements that were consistently cooler than a ship would show in that same spot — the warming trend in the average global temperature seemed to slow dramatically. But Karl and his colleagues believe what looked like a flattening of the warming trend actually just reflected a change in the way the temperature was taken. When the team factored in a correction to the historical data that reconciled the buoys with the ships, they found that what had seemed to be a hiatus in warming disappeared. THE TWO-WAYIt's Official: 2014 Was The Hottest Year On Record, NOAA Says Earth's average temperature has, indeed, maintained a steady climb through the last decades. Kevin Trenberth, who wasn't involved in this analysis, says critics may be skeptical of these revisions, but they shouldn't be. "You see this kind of thing also with the stock market and various other economic indicators: 'Oh they've revised the estimates of what the unemployment rate was in the last quarter,' or something like that, and that's exactly what's going on here," Trenberth says. And the warming trend may be accelerating even more. The calendar year 2014 was the warmest on record, and Trenberth says the past 12 months – mid-year to mid-year — have been even warmer.

54 posted on 06/05/2015 2:29:40 AM PDT by Theophilus (Be as prolific as you are pro-life.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It appears the folks in the Labor Department who calculate unemployment and GDP are now helping with the global warming analysis.


55 posted on 06/05/2015 5:06:35 AM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yeah, we don’t like the outcome from the data, so lets just change the data to get the outcome we want. That is it in a nutshell. They are evil.


56 posted on 06/05/2015 6:39:21 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Lord God help us.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

bump for tomorrow


57 posted on 06/06/2015 12:15:08 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“It’s Joshua! He’s still playing the game!”


58 posted on 06/06/2015 12:18:25 AM PDT by Rastus
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To: Theophilus
Good! No more Ice Ages. : )
59 posted on 06/06/2015 12:22:25 AM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Chgogal

If there were an ice age, we’d have to suspect our thermometers and adjust because there is not a shadow of a doubt, in the unmoored reality of scientific consensus, that ole gaia is only getting hotter and hotter, just like Bruce Jenner.


60 posted on 06/06/2015 1:02:32 AM PDT by Theophilus (Be as prolific as you are pro-life.)
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