Extreme Global Warming Seen Further Away than Previously Thought

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Extreme Global Warming Seen Further Away than Previously Thought

Extreme global warming is less likely in coming decades after a slowdown in the pace of temperature rises so far this century, an international team of scientists said on Sunday.




By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle

OSLO (Reuters) - Extreme global warming is less likely in coming decades after a slowdown in the pace of temperature rises so far this century, an international team of scientists said on Sunday.

Warming is still on track, however, to breach a goal set by governments around the world of limiting the increase in temperatures to below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times, unless tough action is taken to limit rising greenhouse gas emissions.

"The most extreme rates of warming simulated by the current generation of climate models over 50- to 100-year timescales are looking less likely," the University of Oxford wrote about the findings in the journal Nature Geoscience.

The rate of global warming has slowed after strong rises in the 1980s and 1990s, even though all the 10 warmest years since reliable records began in the 1850s have been since 1998.

Extreme Global Warming Seen Further Away than Previously Thought: Scientific American

 

[Saigon]

This seems to be correct, which I think is good news for everyone.

It is certainly good news for everyone who thinks that climate scientists should be open and honest and adjust their predictions based on the best available data.

The problem is, if there is a spike in temperatures next year might mean they have to be shifted upwards again.

 

[skookerasbil]

This seems to be correct, which I think is good news for everyone.

It is certainly good news for everyone who thinks that climate scientists should be open and honest and adjust their predictions based on the best available data.

The problem is, if there is a spike in temperatures next year might mean they have to be shifted upwards again.

Which means one thing: they can predict shit.


The computer models have absolutely no value in being used as a future climate pedictor.......only to help us understand things better.

 

[Saigon]

only to help us understand things better.

Exactly - we now understand things better.

So that is good, isn't it?

 

[Oddball]

Extreme Global Warming Seen Further Away than Previously Thought

Translation: The computer models and hockey puck graph are alarmist bullshit.