Why Is Global Warming Stagnating?
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RenewableCandy
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Wisdom is wonderful stuff but even the largest dollop of it won't get you far in the absence of reliable facts. I'm not decrying this guy and certainly not doubting the rest of this huge body of research on CC but you do see a lot of this kind of thing in medical fields, and of course all the badinage about the "safety" or otherwise of GMOs is a case in point.
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emordnilap
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Nature Bats Last on non-stagnating climate change. A very interesting piece from a great thinker, Joshua Headley.
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Sushil!!Quite literally: we have to completely dismantle the industrial economy, we have to do it soon, and really, we should have done it yesterday.
But even still, grinding industrial civilization to a complete halt today is only guaranteed to mitigate the pace at which we’re running – it is not yet clear that it will ultimately alter our direction.
We have, at minimum, thirty more years of incomprehensible climate disruptions and changes to undergo no matter what happens today or tomorrow. Our only chance to still have a thriving and living planet following the coming decades is by making a complete, radical and rapid shift from the industrial economy.
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We should settle for nothing less than a complete end to all extraction processes. It is not even close to a victory until that happens.
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
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emordnilap
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There's a source cited here.
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
It's from the WMO report:
http://library.wmo.int/pmb_ged/wmo_1119_en.pdf
http://library.wmo.int/pmb_ged/wmo_1119_en.pdf
Tamino at Open Mind has a fine technical post up on the influence of ENSO (El Nino/Southern Oscillation) and its influence
in diverting a little more energy from the atmosphere into the sea than usual.
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"As the graph labelled “POGA-H minus HIST” shows, the influence of natural variation, at least that part of it from ENSO,
has been cooling, not warming, and if we want to assign a percentage we should say that natural variation
has been responsible for about negative 25% of global warming.
Not only did Judith Curry execute one of the most blatant, most obvious, and most ludicrous examples of cherry-picking,
she couldn’t even get the sign of the influence right. That’s what I’ve come to expect from her."
http://tamino.wordpress.com/
Regards,
Lewis
in diverting a little more energy from the atmosphere into the sea than usual.
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"As the graph labelled “POGA-H minus HIST” shows, the influence of natural variation, at least that part of it from ENSO,
has been cooling, not warming, and if we want to assign a percentage we should say that natural variation
has been responsible for about negative 25% of global warming.
Not only did Judith Curry execute one of the most blatant, most obvious, and most ludicrous examples of cherry-picking,
she couldn’t even get the sign of the influence right. That’s what I’ve come to expect from her."
http://tamino.wordpress.com/
Regards,
Lewis