There is clear evidence that the globe has not rapidly warmed in the
last ten years. That evidence, however, is embedded in clear evidence
that, over longer timescales, the globe is warming very quickly. As in
all complex systems, the rate isn't constant.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/326/5949/28-a
You're right, Amartya, politicians love this stuff. I think my job
today is to explain to a few more laypeople how science really works!
cheers,
jason jackson
Duke University
Amartya Saha wrote:
"It seems that there are in the last 10 years the planet did not get
warmer."
Thats an overly simplified statement that politicians love !
10 years is way too little time to search for a trend. Then these are
AVERAGED temperature differences, ostensibly equally sampled all over
the world. And we know that climate variables are rarely perfectly
linear in their correlative or causative behavior, given the different
time scales of various oceanic oscillations.
Meanwhile the accelerated melting of Himalayan and Andean glaciers
continue, as evidenced by the highest snowmelt-fed stream discharges
in recorded history (ok, thats also a blip, but at least spans more
than a century in certain watersheds).
Cheers
amartya
Quoting Matheus Carvalho <[email protected]>:
Dear list members:
It seems that there are in the last 10 years the planet did not get
warmer.
See the last edition of Science, or try this link:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/326/5949/28-a?rss=1
Article title:
What Happened to Global Warming? Scientists Say Just Wait a Bit
Matheus C. Carvalho
Senior Research Associate
Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry
Southern Cross University
Lismore - Australia
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