WUWT
Oh boy! Get ready to watch yet another big fight about climate
change – this time mainly among different groups of climate alarmists.
Is there a “pause”? Did global climate really stop warming during the
last dozen years, 18 years, or even 40 years – in spite of rising levels
of the greenhouse (GH) gas carbon dioxide?
Science mag is publishing a blockbuster paper today, on June
5. The renowned National Climate Data Center (NCDC), a division of NOAA
located in Asheville, NC, claims that the widely reported (and accepted)
temperature hiatus (i.e., near-zero trend) is an illusion – just an
artifact of data analysis – and that the global climate never really
stopped warming. If true, what a blessing that would be for the UN-IPCC –
and for climate alarmists generally, who have been under siege to
explain the cause of the pause.
This paper is turning out to be a “big deal.” The publisher of Science has even issued a special press release, promoting the NCDC claim of continued slow but steady warming.
Of course, NCDC-NOAA and Science may end up with egg on their
collective faces. It does look a little suspicious that NCDC arrived at
this earth-shaking “discovery” after all these years, after “massaging”
its own weather-station data, just before the big policy conference in
December in Paris that is supposed to slow the rise of CO2 from the
burning of energy fuels, coal, oil, and gas."
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