Page S 17: 2008 was cool, but only in the context of the last few very warm years. It still ranks within the 10 warmest years on record. The primary cause was a moderate to strong La Niña event.
Page S18: Notably, the 20 warmest years have all occurred since 1981, and the 10 warmest have all occurred in the past 12 years. On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 7:46 PM, jason jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> ____________________________________________________________________________________ >>> Veja quais são os assuntos do momento no Yahoo! +Buscados >>> http://br.maisbuscados.yahoo.com >>> >> >> >> >> www.bio.miami.edu/asaha > All the best, Dmitry. --------------------------- Dmitry Musolin, PhD Department of Entomology Faculty of Biology and Soil Sciences, St. Petersburg State University Universitetskaya nab., 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034, RUSSIA In English: www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/rider/Pentatomoidea/Researchers/Musolin_Dmitry.htm По-русски: http://www.bio.vsu.ru/ezoo/musolin.htm "Seasonal Development of Aquatic and Semiaquatic True Bugs (Heteroptera)" www.unipress.ru/2007/sau.html; available at: http://www.pemberleybooks.com/
