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Really Wysiwyg ? You actually believe that the cold snap in Europe is part of global cooling?
Somehow you have managed to miss the the relentless increase in temperatures worldwide that has accelerated in the past 3 years ?
Just sayin'.Really Wysiwyg ? You actually believe that the cold snap in Europe is part of global cooling?
Somehow you have managed to miss the the relentless increase in temperatures worldwide that has accelerated in the past 3 years ?
The long-debated hiatus or pause in global warming, championed by climate denialists who tried to claim it proved scientists' projections on climate change are inaccurate or overblown, probably did not happen at all.
A new study by researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration finds that the world's warming never really stalled during the last 15 years—it was just masked by incomplete data records that have been improved and expanded in recent years.
"The rate of temperature increase during the last half of the 20th century is virtually identical to that of the 21st century," said Tom Karl, director of NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information and lead author of the study.
The research, published in the peer-reviewed journal Science this week, is just the latest in a growing number of studies refuting the idea of a slowdown or stop in global warming.
"Tom Karl and colleagues have done solid work here, but they've mostly just confirmed what we already knew," said Michael Mann, a climate scientist and director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University. "There is no true 'pause' or 'hiatus' in warming."
2016 hottest year on record for world:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-05/2016-year-of-extreme-weather-bom-climate-report/8162366
Why that graph among the many alternatives? I thought the aove graph from the same website was more relevant as it includes the whole world.
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Why that graph among the many alternatives. I thought the aove graph from the same website was more relevant as it includes the whole world.
That wasn't the point, rather that this massive acceleration as claimed a few months ago seems to be el nino induced and return to trend (whatever trend floats your boat). Just as the level heads expected.
That wasn't the point, rather that this massive acceleration as claimed a few months ago seems to be el nino induced and return to trend (whatever trend floats your boat). Just as the level heads expected.
Many rest on the idea "that it has all occurred before". It hasn't.
"One of the most commonly used arguments against human-caused climate change is that Earth has experienced severe fluctuations in temperature over its 4.5-billion-year lifespan, so it doesn’t make sense to start freaking out about it now.
If you wonder where today’s temperature fits in with the grand scheme of time on Earth since the dinosaurs were wiped out, here’s the history. We start with the whole 65 million years, then zoom in, and zoom in again to the last 12,000 from both ends of the world. What’s obvious is that in terms of homo sapiens history, things are warm now (because we’re not in an ice age). But, in terms of homo sapiens civilization, things are cooler than usual, and appear to be cooling.
Then again, since T-rex & Co. vanished, it’s been one long slide down the thermometer, and our current “record heatwave” is far cooler than normal. The dinosaurs would have scoffed at us: “What? You think this is warm?”
The mystery of why the dinosaurs became extinct after the Cretaceous meteor strike, while birds and mammals flourished, may finally have been solved.
Paleontologists have discovered that dinosaur young took so long to hatch and grow into adulthood that populations failed to recover quickly enough after the devastating impact 65 million years ago.
If you read "The Sixth Extinction by Eleizabeth Kolbert" which I have referred to on this thread for over seven years you will learn that it has not occurred like this in the past. On the news rightn now that we are at the point of no return unless we reduce co2 output now'One meteor and ALL your theories are in the S Bend with the fluffy white paper ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/...ecame-extinct-could-not-hatch-quickly-enough/
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