Skeptical Science: heads in the sand
Posted: February 9, 2014 Filed under: Alarmists, AR5, Climate Alarmism, Eco-Activists, Empirical Evidence, Environmentalism, Environmentalists, Fact Check, Failed Climate Models, Global Warming Stasis, Global Warming Zealots, Government Grants/Funding, Green Agenda, Ideology, John Cook, Pseudo-Science, Religion, Taxpayer waste, Warmism | Tags: (un)skeptical science, Eco-propaganda, Environmentalism, john cook Leave a commentEven Naturehas acknowledged that the Pause is real, and that the models are missing something:
Average global temperatures hit a record high in 1998 — and then the warming stalled. For several years, scientists wrote off the stall as noise in the climate system: the natural variations in the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere that drive warm or cool spells around the globe. But the pause has persisted, sparking a minor crisis of confidence in the field. Although there have been jumps and dips, average atmospheric temperatures have risen little since 1998, in seeming defiance of projections of climate models and the ever-increasing emissions of greenhouse gases. […]
But none of the climate simulations carried out for the IPCC produced this particular hiatus at this particular time. That has led sceptics — and some scientists — to the controversial conclusion that the models might be overestimating the effect of greenhouse gases…
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