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bambu wrote on Oct 20 th, 2012 at 1:48pm: skippy. wrote on Oct 20 th, 2012 at 12:40pm: I see the confusionalists have turned this thread into another " the climate is not getting warmer" lie. How dumb are these dicks? They believe the word of a cross dressing delusional old fart over that of the overwhelming majority of the worlds scientific community, dumbfvcks pure and simple dumbfvcks, they shouldn't be allowed to breed. http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/50280Global Warming Stopped 16 Years Ago
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.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.—David Rose, Mail on Sunday, 14 October 2012 Why the Mail on Sunday was wrong to claim global warming has stopped Tuesday 16 October 2012 Newspaper's claim that 'world stopped getting warmer almost 16 years ago' is simply wrong, says Met Office The British newspaper the Mail on Sunday and its writer David Rose are notorious for publishing misleading (at best) climate-related articles, as we have discussed previously here, for example. They have recently struck again, claiming that according to a "quietly released" Met Office report, global warming stopped 16 years ago (a myth which Skeptical Science debunks here and here). This assertion is entirely fabricated, as the Met Office explained by publishing David Rose's inquiry and the Met Office's responses.
"Firstly, the Met Office has not issued a report on this issue. We can only assume the article is referring to the completion of work to update the HadCRUT4 global temperature dataset compiled by ourselves and the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit.
We announced that this work was going on in March and it was finished this week. You can see the HadCRUT4 website here."
Rose's factually challenged article was predictably reproduced uncritically by the usual climate denial blogs and referenced by Fox News, perhaps in an attempt to distract from this year's record-breaking Arctic sea ice minimum. However, virtually every point made in the article was factually incorrect, as Rose would have known if he were a Skeptical Science reader, because we recently pre-bunked his piece.
Rose attempted to elicit a statement from the Met Office by asking a question which would be described in court as "leading the witness":
"First, please confirm that they do indeed reveal no warming trend since 1997."
The Skeptical Science temperature trend calculator can be used to test this question. The trend in the HadCRUT4 global surface temperature dataset since 1997 is 0.084 ± 0.152°C per decade (although we have not yet updated the HadCRUT4 data, the GISS and NCDC datasts show a similar warming trend since 1997). While the trend is not statistically significant, the central value is positive, meaning the average surface temperature has most likely warmed over this period.
The Met Office also explained that Rose is essentially trying to go down the up escalator (Figure 1) by focusing on short-term noise while ignoring the long-term trend.
"Over the last 140 years global surface temperatures have risen by about 0.8ºC. However, within this record there have been several periods lasting a decade or more during which temperatures have risen very slowly or cooled. The current period of reduced warming is not unprecedented and 15 year long periods are not unusual."
Continued ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/16/daily-mail-global-warming-stop...
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