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greenman3610

(3,947 posts)
Wed Sep 4, 2013, 12:53 PM Sep 2013

Video: There is no Slowdown in Global Warming



It’s no surprise that the initial line of denialist attack on the forthcoming IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), first installment due out later this month, will be the issue of “climate sensitivity”, that is, how much warming can we expect from a given level of greenhouse forcing. A number of high profile media spots have lately raised the question about whether scientists will be slightly lowering the estimates from the canonical 3° C plus or minus 1.5° or so, to maybe 2.5C or thereabouts. It’s a distinction without a difference is the first response – but even to get to that first response you have to understand something even more fundamental – a slightly lower rate of surface temperature rise over the last decade or so does not change the fact that the planet continues to gather heat. That heat is going somewhere, and has an effect on the system – surface thermometers are only one indicator of a relatively small portion of that heat imbalance.
http://climatecrocks.com/2013/09/04/new-video-there-is-no-pause-in-global-warming/
http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/2013/09/new-yale-forum-video-examines-key-point-global-includes-oceans-too/
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Video: There is no Slowdown in Global Warming (Original Post) greenman3610 Sep 2013 OP
It's all so complicated,my brain hurts!!!!! Theyletmeeatcake2 Sep 2013 #1
FOLLOW THE SEA TEMPS AND drynberg Sep 2013 #2
K&R and shared - to my Facebook page LongTomH Sep 2013 #3

Theyletmeeatcake2

(348 posts)
1. It's all so complicated,my brain hurts!!!!!
Wed Sep 4, 2013, 02:04 PM
Sep 2013

On one side you have all these scientists that have facts and figures and on the other side they have those reputable experts like Lord(?) Munckton ,FOXNEWS and the oil,gas and mining industries !!!!
You have to suspect that there is self interest driving what the scientists are saying,after all scientific proof seems to be their obsession!!!

drynberg

(1,648 posts)
2. FOLLOW THE SEA TEMPS AND
Wed Sep 4, 2013, 02:42 PM
Sep 2013

Also the amount of Greenland, Arctic and Antarctic melting or shrinkage. These measurements don't lie or confuse: This is Science, folks.

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