'slowdown in warming'

[DrLeftover]

Scientists say the recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead to lower temperature rises in the short-term.

Since 1998, there has been an unexplained "standstill" in the heating of the Earth's atmosphere.

Writing in Nature Geoscience, the researchers say this will reduce predicted warming in the coming decades.

But long-term, the expected temperature rises will not alter significantly.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22567023



I'm waiting to see this on one of the big name US networks.

 

[DrLeftover]

.... .... and in an unrelated story:

232 days - it took over 30 years for Anchorage to set a new record for the longest snow season on record.

The National Weather Service measured 2/10ths of an inch just after 9 p.m. Friday and 1/10th Saturday morning - breaking the old record of 230 days set in 1981-1982.

http://www.today.com/id/51929453/ns/local_news-anchorage_ak/t/anchorage-sets-record-longest-snow-season/

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

I would like it to be colder in California, thats for sure!

 

[DrLeftover]

STAGE 19 CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW
May 24 update:
FROM THE RACE DIRECTORS: Ponte di Legno, 24 May 2013 – Due to adverse weather conditions and, in particular, snow on the stage route in its entirety, stage 19 of the Giro d’Italia, from Ponte di Legno to Val Martello/Martelltal, has been cancelled.

http://www.steephill.tv/giro-d-italia/


also
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/snow-cancels-19th-stage-giro-italia-bike-race-article-1.1353772

 

[DrLeftover]

The answer: "Yeah, and, so.... what else is new?"


The question: "Networks Fail to Mention ‘Lull’ in Warming in All 92 Climate Change Stories"

Just since Jan. 1, 2013, ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news programs have aired 92 stories about “climate change” or “global warming.” Not a single one of those stories mentioned the “warming plateau” reported even by The New York Times on June 10. The Times wrote, “The rise in the surface temperature of earth has been markedly slower over the last 15 years than in the 20 years before that. And that lull in warming has occurred even as greenhouse gases have accumulated in the atmosphere at a record pace.”

The problems with climate forecasting models weren’t mentioned either, even though a researcher at Sweden's University of Gothenburg found that many climate models couldn’t correctly model known temperatures in China. Investor’s Business Daily reported on March 28 that “Only half of the 21 analyzed climate models were able to reproduce the changes in some regions of China," he said. "Few models can well reproduce the nationwide change."

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/julia-seymour/2013/06/25/networks-fail-mention-lull-warming-all-92-climate-change-stories#ixzz2XK6pon13

 

[wirelessguru1]

We are going through a big heat wave right now here in the West Coast...

 

[DrLeftover]

Yes you are.

And it is almost as hot as it was a hundred years ago.

The forecast called for Death Valley to reach 128 degrees Saturday as part of a heat wave that has caused large parts of the western U.S. to suffer. Death Valley's record high of 134 degrees, set a century ago, stands as the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/temperatures-death-valley-reach-128-degrees-article-1.1385788

 

[DrLeftover]

An update on the slowdown

23 July 2013

Huge amounts of heat – equivalent to the power of 150 billion electric kettles – are being continuously absorbed by the deep ocean, which could explain why global warming has “paused” over the past 10 to 15 years, scientists have concluded in a series of reports to explain why the Earth’s rate of warming has slowed down.

Global average temperatures are higher now than they have ever been since modern records began. However, after a period of rapid temperature increases during the 1980s and 1990s there has been a significant slow-down since the turn of the century, leading some sceptics to claim that global warming has stopped.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/has-global-warming-stopped-no--its-just-on-pause-insist-scientists-and-its-down-to-the-oceans-8726893.html

 

[DrLeftover]

More-

Blame the volcanoes

http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/separating-science-from-spin-on-the-global-warming-pause-20130821