"Denial" - a curious turn of phrase, under the circumstances. In reality, the warming trend is continuing just as it has since the 1970s, to a statistically significant level.
See these two posts at Open Mind for a quick illustration of this: http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/riddle-me-this/ (i.e. temperatures are consistent with the long term warming trend - well within the bounds of statistical significance.) http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/how-long/ (statistical analysis demonstrating that, given the level of short term variance in global temperature data, you need more than 15 years to quantify the underlying trend to a statistically significant level, and that temperatures from now back to the 1970s are entirely consistent with an ongoing warming trend of roughly 0.18 degrees per decade.) On 3 March 2010 09:34, Robert I Ellison <[email protected]> wrote: > > David - you may quibble about reasons or significance but outright > denial is not a good look. > > http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2009/global_temperatures_09.pdf > > > On Mar 2, 11:54 am, "David B. Benson" <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mar 1, 3:01 pm, Robert I Ellison <[email protected]> >> wrote:> ... >> > ... the current warming hiatus ... >> >> does not exist by simple inspection of the decadal >> GISTEMP averages I posted previously. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange
