--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard M" <compost...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <do.rflex@> wrote: > > [snip] > > > SUMMARY: *All* of the above data shows global warming over the last > > century. > > But for heaven's sake - I was talking about THIS century! As they say > these days "what part of 2000 to 2008 don't you understand?"
You really ARE thick, aren't you? Established Temperature Data for this century up to 2005 and projected for the 21st century shows continuous temperature *increases*. No flat-lining of temperatures as you falsely claimed: Global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the 100 years ending in 2005.[1][2] Climate model projections indicate that global surface temperature will likely rise a further 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) during the twenty-first century.[3] The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that most of the temperature increase since the mid-twentieth century is "very likely" due to the increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.[3][2] Natural phenomena such as solar variation and volcanoes probably had a small warming effect from pre-industrial times to 1950 and a small cooling effect from 1950 onward.[4][5] These basic conclusions have been endorsed by at least 30 scientific societies and academies of science,[6] including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries.[7][8][9] While individual scientists have voiced disagreement with these findings,[10] the overwhelming majority of scientists working on climate change agree with the IPCC's main conclusions.[11][12] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming > > As when I asked this: "do you not notice the levelling off of global > temp in this century?" > > As when I linked to satellite charts for 2000-2008 and also the > surface temperature NASA GISS record for that period. > > As when I asked you: "going back to the issue of warming 2000-2008, > IPCC 4 does not say much about that as this data is too recent. Or > does it? What figure DOES IPCC 4 give as the amount of warming for > 2000-2008?" > > Most now take the view that as we close out 2008, it is almost certain > to be the coldest year of all this century. For those more interested > in the phenomenon than in shoring up their political certainties, this > is an interesting potential anomaly for the AGW theory. That's all. It > does not as yet refute AGW. (For a reasoned discussion of that please > DO check out http://tinyurl.com/6jt9lb). > > You'll never accept this of course, especially from a TOAD - but I > really do think you are blinded here by your fog of politically > motivated certainty. I can accept that AGW could go either way - can you? >
