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Global warming 'pause' may last for 20 more years and Arctic sea ice has already started to recover
Read more: Global warming 'pause' may last for 20 more years and Arctic sea ice has already started to recover | Mail Online
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Read more: Global warming 'pause' may last for 20 more years and Arctic sea ice has already started to recover | Mail Online
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The 17-year pause in global warming is likely to last into the 2030s and the Arctic sea ice has already started to recover, according to new research.
A paper in the peer-reviewed journal Climate Dynamics by Professor Judith Curry of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Dr Marcia Wyatt amounts to a stunning challenge to climate science orthodoxy.
Not only does it explain the unexpected pause, it suggests that the scientific majority whose views are represented by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have underestimated the role of natural cycles and exaggerated that of greenhouse gases.
The research comes amid mounting evidence that the computer models on which the IPCC based the gloomy forecasts of a rapidly warming planet in its latest report, published in September, are diverging widely from reality.
The graph shown above, based on a version published by Dr Ed Hawkins of Reading University on his blog, Climate Lab Book, reveals that actual temperatures are now below the predictions made by almost all the 138 models on which the IPCC relies.
The pause means there has been no statistically significant increase in world average surface temperatures since the beginning of 1997, despite the models projection of a steeply rising trend.
According to Dr Hawkins, the divergence is now so great that the worlds climate is cooler than what the models collectively predicted with five to 95 per cent certainty.
A paper in the peer-reviewed journal Climate Dynamics by Professor Judith Curry of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Dr Marcia Wyatt amounts to a stunning challenge to climate science orthodoxy.
Not only does it explain the unexpected pause, it suggests that the scientific majority whose views are represented by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have underestimated the role of natural cycles and exaggerated that of greenhouse gases.
The research comes amid mounting evidence that the computer models on which the IPCC based the gloomy forecasts of a rapidly warming planet in its latest report, published in September, are diverging widely from reality.
The graph shown above, based on a version published by Dr Ed Hawkins of Reading University on his blog, Climate Lab Book, reveals that actual temperatures are now below the predictions made by almost all the 138 models on which the IPCC relies.
The pause means there has been no statistically significant increase in world average surface temperatures since the beginning of 1997, despite the models projection of a steeply rising trend.
According to Dr Hawkins, the divergence is now so great that the worlds climate is cooler than what the models collectively predicted with five to 95 per cent certainty.