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CO2 is increasing, but the temperature during the past 18+ years has been flat. None of the IPCC climate models predicted this "pause" in global warming. This has caused some doubts about whether the current climate models can give us good information about what will happen in the future.
It looks like you may have nitpicked your data sources. The data you selected was 'RSS MSU lower tropics global mean temperature' which does show a flat trend. However if we look at the USH NSSTC data for the same we see an upward trend. I'm definitely not an expert in this stuff though, can you explain to me why you chose the data that you did?
I picked RSS because it shows the problem most clearly. But the problem of the "pause" is discussed in the mainstream literature. Usually they use the term "hiatus" if you want to search. Every year, the discrepancy between the observed global temperature and the IPCC projections grows. There are dozens of papers purporting to explain the "pause", but they can't all be right. You don't have to "deny" climate change to ask for a little more honesty about what is known and what is not. Big changes are being requested from every one of us, so I don't think it is out of line to ask for transparency.
All the data used by the IPCC is nitpicked. We have a childish understanding of climate, and this politicized debate is severely inhibiting our capacity to seriously conduct research.
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[–] technologyisnatural 1 point 4 points 5 points (+5|-1) ago
Here's a graph of the data, check for yourself ...
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/from:1997/plot/esrl-co2/from:1997/normalise/plot/rss/from:1997/trend
Red is the global temperature.
Blue is the trend (note that it is flat)
Green is the CO2.
CO2 is increasing, but the temperature during the past 18+ years has been flat. None of the IPCC climate models predicted this "pause" in global warming. This has caused some doubts about whether the current climate models can give us good information about what will happen in the future.
[–] MedicalMountainGoat 1 point 4 points 5 points (+5|-1) ago
It looks like you may have nitpicked your data sources. The data you selected was 'RSS MSU lower tropics global mean temperature' which does show a flat trend. However if we look at the USH NSSTC data for the same we see an upward trend. I'm definitely not an expert in this stuff though, can you explain to me why you chose the data that you did?
[–] technologyisnatural 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I picked RSS because it shows the problem most clearly. But the problem of the "pause" is discussed in the mainstream literature. Usually they use the term "hiatus" if you want to search. Every year, the discrepancy between the observed global temperature and the IPCC projections grows. There are dozens of papers purporting to explain the "pause", but they can't all be right. You don't have to "deny" climate change to ask for a little more honesty about what is known and what is not. Big changes are being requested from every one of us, so I don't think it is out of line to ask for transparency.
[–] totes-mah-voats 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
All the data used by the IPCC is nitpicked. We have a childish understanding of climate, and this politicized debate is severely inhibiting our capacity to seriously conduct research.
[–] boot13 ago
PedantoMan says: 'cherry-picked' not 'nitpicked'.
[–] escapetomars 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
This is accurate.