"Belgium objected to using 1998 as a starting year for any statistics. That year was exceptionally warm, so any graph showing global temperatures starting with 1998 looks flat, because most years since have been cooler. Using 1999 or 2000 as a starting year would yield a more upward-pointing curve."
Like a hockey stick, right?
Yeah, let's FUDGE the NUMBERS so we can make our ca$e!
"Experts hit snag on global warming; Rate of climate change slows" by Karl Ritter | Associated Press, September 20, 2013
STOCKHOLM — Scientists working on a landmark UN report on climate change are struggling to explain why global warming appears to have slowed down during the past 15 years even though greenhouse gas emissions keep rising.
It hasn't slowed down, it has receded -- even as the fart mist has expanded. Must be John Kerry's plane trips!
Leaked documents obtained by Associated Press show there are deep concerns among governments about how to address the issue before next week’s meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Yes, HOW DO WE CONTINUE TELLING LIES to people so we can LOOT THEM to underwrite our New World Order when they know we are lying simply by their SENSES!?
Climate skeptics have used the lull in surface warming since 1998 to cast doubt on the scientific consensus that humans are cooking the planet by burning fossil fuels and cutting down CO2-absorbing forests.
I'm with them on the forests part, but stop blaming us for the fossil fuels when it is the war machine and the elite power structure that are responsible for that -- as well as the methane leaking from the ground due to fracking.
The IPCC report is expected to affirm the human link with greater certainty than ever, but the panel is under pressure to also address the recent lower rate of warming, which scientists say is probably due to heat going deep into the ocean and natural climate fluctuations.
Probably? That doesn't sound very scientific!
‘‘I think to not address it would be a problem because then you basically have the denialists saying, ‘Look the IPCC is silent on this issue,’ ’’ said Alden Meyer, of the Washington-based Union of Concerned Scientists.
Oh, now those who argue truth, facts, senses, and real science are "deniers." When they start tossing that around YOU KNOW YOU ARE RIGHT!
In a leaked June draft of the report’s summary from policy-makers, the IPCC said the rate of warming in 1998-2012 was about half the average rate since 1951. It cited natural variability in the climate system, as well as cooling effects from volcanic eruptions and a downward phase in solar activity.
Yes, recent evidence has concluded the sun has 11-year solar cycles that correspond with a 22-year cycle of climate change down here. We are experiencing a cooling phase now, and the $cienti$ts can't admit it for the obvious rea$ons.
But Germany called for the reference to the slowdown to be deleted, saying a time span of 10-15 years was misleading in the context of climate change, which is measured over decades and centuries.
How disappointing that Germany is for censorship and obfuscation.
The United States also urged the authors to include the ‘‘leading hypothesis’’ that the reduction in warming is linked to more heat being transferred to the deep ocean.
How did it get down there? Is there no limit to the lame-ass excuses they will leak?
Belgium objected to using 1998 as a starting year for any statistics. That year was exceptionally warm, so any graph showing global temperatures starting with 1998 looks flat, because most years since have been cooler. Using 1999 or 2000 as a starting year would yield a more upward-pointing curve.
Hungary feared the data may give skeptics ammunition.
Many skeptics claim that the rise in global average temperatures stopped in the late 1990s and their argument has gained momentum among some media and politicians, even though the scientific evidence of climate change is piling up: the previous decade was the warmest on record and, so far, this decade is even warmer.
PFFFFFFTTT!
See: CLIMATEGATE: A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
Official lies are crimes. That is why truth gathers momentum.
Meanwhile, Arctic Sea ice melted to a record low last year and the IPCC draft said sea levels have risen by 7.5 inches since 1901.
Related: 73% Increase In Arctic Ice Since Last Year
So much for melting glaciers. Must be the rising level of bulls***.
Many researchers say the slowdown in warming is related to the natural ocean cycles of El Nino and La Nina. Also, a 2013 study by Kevin Trenberth at the National Center for Atmospheric Research found dramatic recent warming in the deeper oceans.
Are you sure it wasn't the underseas volcanos?
Stefan Rahmstorf, a German climate scientist, said it was possible that the report’s authors were feeling pressured to address the warming slowdown because it has received so much attention recently.
It's the FIRST I HAVE SEEN of it in my AGENDA-PU$HING NEW$PAPER -- and likely the last!!