NASA Scientist Admits Global Warming Pause since 1999

[JimBowie1958]

NASA Climate Scientist Explains 15-Year ?Global Warming Hiatus? « CBS DC

A NASA scientist described a recent “global warming hiatus” that shows Earth’s surface temperatures warming at a slower rate than previous decades – but it is still warming.

Norman Loeb delivered a lecture entitled, “The Recent Pause in Global Warming: A Temporary Blip or Something More Permanent?” at the NASA Langley Research Center auditorium on Tuesday. The talk addressed challenges to scientists and increased skepticism among climate change skeptics due to the recent “hiatus” of global warming.

The federal space agency climate scientist explored research into a slow-down in surface warming over the last 15 years referred to as the “Global Warming Hiatus.” In recent years, the global mean surface temperature on Earth has increased at a rate that is about one-third of that from the past 60 years.

The global warming hiatus occurred despite record-breaking temperatures in the 2000s, retreating Arctic sea ice, rising sea levels and a record high global concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to a statement released by NASA.

Lol, so while his pause was occurring, the government stats still had record breaking temperatures set every month for like 8 years, lolol

I guess they shouldn't 'adjust' those temperatures so hard.

A 'Denialist' response

Global Warming Pause Puts 'Crisis' In Perspective - Forbes

The IPCC-affiliated scientists have made guesses that the unknown climate components will dramatically accelerate the modest warming caused directly by human carbon dioxide emissions. So-called climate skeptics have argued the UN guesses consistently overestimate the warming propensity of the unknown climate components.

The real-world temperature data appear to support the skeptics. Even before the recent global warming pause, temperatures were warming at a relatively modest pace. The ongoing global warming pause is rendering the longer-term pace of warming still more modest.

IPCC computer models dating from 1990 through the present have consistently predicted at least 2.4 degrees of global warming per century. Such warming would require at least 0.24 degrees Celsius per decade, for which we should see at least 0.80 degrees Celsius warming since 1979. However, real-world warming since 1979 is occurring at less than half that pace. And there has been absolutely no real-world warming during the past 17 years.

IPCC adherents claim short-term variance is masking longer-term climate trends. According to this line of reasoning, the 35 years since 1979 are simply not long enough to form meaningful conclusions about the longer-term pace of global warming.

This line of argument is unpersuasive for two important reasons:

First, the admittedly less reliable ground-based mercury temperature readings from the mid-1940s through the late 1970s reported global cooling during the three decades immediately prior to the satellite era. Accordingly, the time period for which real-world temperatures are not rising nearly as rapidly as IPCC predictions is now not just 35 years, but approximately 70 years.

Second, and even ignoring the 1940s-1970s global cooling, for global temperatures to meet IPCC’s predicted 2.4 degree rise by late this century, global temperatures must immediately – and that means immediately – begin rising at a sustained 0.30 degrees Celsius per decade. That has never come close to occurring during our modern warm period, and the ongoing global warming pause suggests that is unlikely to begin happening any time in the foreseeable future, either.

 

[ScienceRocks]

The fact that our second and third record warm during 2005 and 1998 are still being discussed today is solid grounds for the pause. There's no question it hasn't warmed more than a few hundredth of a degree since then. If it did those years wouldn't be near the top 2-3.

 

[JimBowie1958]

The fact that our second and third record warm during 2005 and 1998 are still being discussed today is solid grounds for the pause. There's no question it hasn't warmed more than a few hundredth of a degree since then. If it did those years wouldn't be near the top 2-3.

Isnt hundredths of a degree (guessing Celsius) outside our significant digits on these temperature measurements?

I only ever see tenths of degrees on the records so talking about changes of hundredths of a degree is kind of fudgeable, is it not?.

 

[Mad Scientist]

New made up language to fool people:

"Global Warming Pause".

See, we're supposed to get the impression that it'll continue again sometime forgetting the fact that it never was in the first place.

 

[JimBowie1958]

A new study by a “group of mean reactionary science purists” at the Journal Nature Climate Change took a look at 117 of the Left’s wild claims. Its results are devastating for Gore and the Left. They show that 114, or 97.4%, of them were wrong. They weren’t just a little “ooops, I hit the wrong number on my computer – wrong but wrong by a you – don’t – know what – in- the – world – you’re –are talking – about” wrong. The average “mistake” was an overstatement of global warming by double actual reality.

Two attacks on these lies came from Alabama, which of course disqualifies them in the scolding eyes of the New York Times.

Nevertheless, here’s what these professors from the University of Alabama had to say:

“It’s a real problem [the misinformation] … it shows that there really is something that needs to be fixed in the climate models.” – Climate scientist John Christy.

“I looked at 73 climate models going back to 1979 and every single one predicted more warming than happened in the real world.” – John Christy, professor at the University of Alabama Huntsville.

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