Updated list of 29 [Updated to 30] excuses for the nearly 18 year ‘pause’ in global warming
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2014/07/updated-list-of-29-excuses-for-18-year.html
| RSS satellite data showing the 18 year ‘pause’ of global warming |
Figure 1. RSS monthly global mean lower-troposphere temperature anomalies (dark blue) and trend (thick bright blue line), September 1996 to June 2014, showing no trend for 17 years 10 months.
13) “Scientists looking at the wrong ‘lousy’ data” http://
16) Negative phase of Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation17) AMOC ocean oscillation
18) “Global brightening” has stopped
20) “It’s the hottest decade ever” Decadal averages used to hide the ‘pause’ [debunked]
22) Temperature variations fall “roughly in the middle of the AR4 model results”
23) “Not scientifically relevant”
24) The wrong type of El Ninos
25) Slower trade winds [debunked]
26) The climate is less sensitive to CO2 than previously thought [see also]
27) PDO and AMO natural cycles and here
28) ENSO
29) Solar cycle driven ocean temperature variations
UPDATE: It only took a few more days to reach #30:
30) Warming Atlantic caused cooling Pacific [paper] [debunked by Trenberth & Wunsch]
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| An incomplete list of excuses |
UPDATE: C3 updates the Wayne’s World graphic:
