Euro-Media Concede Global Warming Has Ended Models Were Wrong Scientists Are Baffled!

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Euro-Media Concede Global Warming Has Ended…Models Were Wrong…Scientists Are Baffled!
NoTricksZone ^ | January 19, 2013 | P. Gosselin

Warmist Spiegel/Euro-Media Concede Global Warming Has Ended?Models Were Wrong?Scientists Are Baffled!

Spiegel has finally gotten around to conceding that global warming has ended, at least for the time being.

Yesterday Spiegel science journalist Axel Bojanowski published a piece called: Klimawandel: Forscher rätseln über Stillstand bei Erderwärmung (Climate change: scientists baffled by the stop in global warming).

We’ve been waiting for this admission a long time, and watching the media reaction is interesting to say the least. Bojanowski writes that “The word has been out for quite some time now that the climate is developing differently than predicted earlier”. He poses the question: “How many more years of stagnation are needed before scientists rethink their predictions of future warming?”

Bojanowski adds (emphasis added):

15 years without warming are now behind us. The stagnation of global near-surface average temperatures shows that the uncertainties in the climate prognoses are surprisingly large. The public is now waiting with suspense to see if the next UN IPCC report, due in September, is going to discuss the warming stop.”

The big question now circulating through the stunned European media, governments and activist organisations is how could the warming stop have happened? Moreover, how do we now explain it to the public? To find an answer, Bojanowski contacted a number of sources. The result, in summary: scientists are now left only to speculate over an entire range of possible causes. Uncertainty in climate science indeed has never been greater. It’s back to square one.

One explanation Spiegel presents is that the oceans have somehow absorbed the heat and are now hiding it somewhere. Yet, Bojanowski writes that there is very little available data to base this on: “There is a lot of uncertainty concerning the development of the water temperature. It has long appeared that also the oceans have not warmed further since 2003.” Spiegel then quotes Kevin Trenberth concerning NASA’s claim that they’ve detected a warming of the oceans: “The uncertainties with the data are too great. We need to improve our measurements“.

Spiegel also writes that the missing heat may be lurking somewhere deep in the oceans. But here Bojanowski [Spiegel] quotes Doug Smith of the Met Office: “This is very difficult to confirm“. Jochem Marotzke of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI) suspects that energy has been conveyed to the ocean’s interior, but there’s a dire lack of data to confirm this. Bojanowski writes over the current state of ocean data measurement: “Without intensifying the data measurement network, we are going to have to wait a long time for any proof“.

We will need another 5 years to say yes or no.

 

[Missourian]

No.

It's over.

I did get a kick out of "the oceans are hiding it somewhere" hypothesis.

 

[ReallyMeow]

 

[S.J.]

What's so funny about this is how long it took 'em to realize they'd been had. I never bought that bullshit to begin with, not even for a minute. All I needed to know was who was behind it. The political agenda stuck out like a sore thumb.

Matthew, I like your avatar. Heh, heh, heh.

 

[IanC]

from the leaked second order draft of AR5 it would seem as if the UN's IPCC will not be backing down from its positions on global warming.

speaking of which....I havent heard any thing more on Muller's BEST papers that are supposedly going to be published in Volume One, Issue One of a new 'peer reviewed' Journal, coming out from India along with dozens of other journals that seem to be more interested in 'publication for pay' than science. At least Muller may have been able to beat the deadline for inclusion into the IPCC AR4.