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They forgot to mention that the world hasn't warmed in the last 17 years.
Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released... and here is the chart to prove it | Mail Online
Cookies must be enabled. | The AustralianTHE Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest assessment reportedly admits its computer drastically overestimated rising temperatures, and over the past 60 years the world has in fact been warming at half the rate claimed in the previous IPCC report in 2007.
More importantly, according to reports in British and US media, the draft report appears to suggest global temperatures were less sensitive to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide than was previously thought.
The 2007 assessment report said the planet was warming at a rate of 0.2C every decade, but according to Britain's The Daily Mail the draft update report says the true figure since 1951 has been 0.12C.
Last week, the IPCC was forced to deny it was locked in crisis talks as reports intensified that scientists were preparing to revise down the speed at which climate change is happening and its likely impact.
Yep, you cant see anything on that, but its too localised to expect a whole lot, and the scale is not real conducive to seeing fractions of a degree in temperature changes. Have a look at:Here is a graph of temperatures in Noosa since 1984. I don't see anything to be bothered about. Maybe it's just here?
http://www.surf-forecast.com/sstgraphs/Alexandria-Bay
Above is a graph of Historical Sea Surface Temperature for Noosa - Alexandria Bay. This has been derived from analysis of two decades of oceanographic satellite measurements of nearby open water. We have calculated the average water temperature variation around the year as well as the extremes that have been observed on each date.png
Yes what you say about the model being adjusted is correct. But clearly it is a very complex business, and climate modelling is like any science - a combination of data, history, predictions and guesswork.No, I'm a sceptic when it comes to that, but what I'm pointing out here, and previously, is that all the predictions have effectively been wrong and downward amendment needed. The simple fact is that the IPCC started from a platform warning about catastrophic global warming and every year it just gets watered (pun intended) down.
Whether we have any influence on the climate at all hasn't been proven conclusively (this is quite different to general pollution over which we have significant control). And as pointed out in one of my links, the IPCC states that we are responsible for just half of the warming that was occurring and has now stopped (for the last 17 years). They really don't know, but it is a lucrative cash cow of an industry.I am really trying to understand this global warming concept. I've read all the links and done a little research.
It does seem as if temperatures are going up. The increases are disputed but there is movement.
What interests me most is that the same thing is happening to all the planets in our solar system yet only on Earth is it being attributed to humans. I think this is odd, to say the least, I know humans are wonderful creatures but in this case I doubt whether they have anything to do with it at all. Unless of course, what we do here reaches millions of miles into space.