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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Where does carbon dioxide go on vacation?
Send more dollars!
I think there is an admission that the warming is not happening...
Hoaxes are apparently very hard for scientists to understand.
Ping.
“Heat trapping gases POURING into the atmosphere”....right. At the ppm level.
Big deal.
Making the data fit the theories ... real scientists at work.
LOLOLOLOLOL
It’s called winter! :)
Scientists Examine Causes For 10 year Lull in Warming
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First it was the report on melting glaciers that weren’t melting. That was followed by the hacked e-mail scandal that rocked the supporters of the global warming theory. Now scientists say they need more money to figure our why there was a dip in global temperatures between 1999 – 2008. Wait. What?!?
I pray these idiots feel the global warming when they “Go down in flames”
I question whether any of the so called “climate scientists” are even scientists at all. They did not include any of the effects of the Sun in their climate models. How stupid is that? The Sun being the prime and just about only source of energy for the climate.
On top of that they all bought into the malarky that the small percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere was causing all this non-existent warming. People with some sense have been saying all along that CO2 is good, that plants thrive on it and it is not causing any problem.
We still have these idiots that are wanting to spend millions if not billions on “Carbon Sequestration”, and trying to get “Cap & Trade” legislation passed.
Its all hogwash being promoted by a bunch of snake oil salesmen..Al Gore being the head snake.
Off with their heads!
I notice that things get colder when I dont buy my wife a present every so often
I think things get warmer when its not getting colder
That is what they have been doing with reducing the bad (too cold)recording stations and cherry picking their data very carefully...got to keep the money coming thru the Global warming research grants....
Theories? Hell, I thought they sold it as fact.
CO2 emission is a life process. You know if they try to control that it is not about protecting the planet but about controlling others....this is the venue they chose to do it....all should beware....
Gaseous Vulcans. That’s what a colleague of mine likes to call the increasingly baroque attempts to save a theory falsified by observation (be it string theory or AGW). It refers to the attempts to explain the precession of the orbit of Mercury within Newtonian mechanics by positing a quickly orbiting planet closer to the sun, then, when this planet could not be observed proposing it was gaseous and transparent. Of course, Newtonian mechanics turns out to be wrong, and general relativity correctly predicts the precession of planetary orbits.
We can expect to see a succession of ‘gaseous Vulcans’ being proposed by the AGW types over the next few years (I hope: this kind of thing can take decades to go away.)
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