Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out

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Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents.

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The planet's temperature curve rose sharply for almost 30 years, as global temperatures increased by an average of 0.7 degrees Celsius (1.25 degrees Fahrenheit) from the 1970s to the late 1990s. "At present, however, the warming is taking a break," confirms meteorologist Mojib Latif of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in the northern German city of Kiel. Latif, one of Germany's best-known climatologists, says that the temperature curve has reached a plateau. "There can be no argument about that," he says. "We have to face that fact."

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"It cannot be denied that this is one of the hottest issues in the scientific community," says Jochem Marotzke, director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg. "We don't really know why this stagnation is taking place at this point."

Just a few weeks ago, Britain's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research added more fuel to the fire with its latest calculations of global average temperatures. According to the Hadley figures, the world grew warmer by 0.07 degrees Celsius from 1999 to 2008 and not by the 0.2 degrees Celsius assumed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. And, say the British experts, when their figure is adjusted for two naturally occurring climate phenomena, El Niño and La Niña, the resulting temperature trend is reduced to 0.0 degrees Celsius -- in other words, a standstill.

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A few scientists simply refuse to believe the British calculations. "Warming has continued in the last few years," says Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). However, Rahmstorf is more or less alone in his view.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/...,662092,00.html

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waits for steven to find this thread.

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Sigh. The climate has always 'changed'. This trend will continue.

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Sigh. The climate has always 'changed'. This trend will continue.

Is it safe for me to get back into my SUV now?

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Sigh. The climate has always 'changed'. This trend will continue.

Is it safe for me to get back into my SUV now?

since Al Gore is still flying around in his private jet & having a motorcade deliver him to his speaking engagements, i don't see why not.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Sigh. The climate has always 'changed'. This trend will continue.

Is it safe for me to get back into my SUV now?

since Al Gore is still flying around in his private jet & having a motorcade deliver him to his speaking engagements, i don't see why not.

i am sure mr. gore purchases carbon offsets.... from his own company....

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Sigh. The climate has always 'changed'. This trend will continue.

Is it safe for me to get back into my SUV now?

since Al Gore is still flying around in his private jet & having a motorcade deliver him to his speaking engagements, i don't see why not.

i am sure mr. gore purchases carbon offsets.... from his own company....

I heard he ran over a bear with his limousine just because it was in the way.

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I heard he ran over a bear with his limousine just because it was in the way.

no, because the bear looked just like rush.

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I heard he ran over a bear with his limousine just because it was in the way.

no, because the bear looked just like rush.

Either way, that schmuck is really showing his true colors..and they aren't red, white, and blue.

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Sigh. The climate has always 'changed'. This trend will continue.

Is it safe for me to get back into my SUV now?

since Al Gore is still flying around in his private jet & having a motorcade deliver him to his speaking engagements, i don't see why not.

i am sure mr. gore purchases carbon offsets.... from his own company....

Carbon offsets are a joke, to make wealthy liberal socialites feel good about being hypocrites, because feeling good about yourself is what liberalism is all about.

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http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/...,662092,00.html

AJ is warming up to quality media.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Sigh. The climate has always 'changed'. This trend will continue.

Is it safe for me to get back into my SUV now?

since Al Gore is still flying around in his private jet & having a motorcade deliver him to his speaking engagements, i don't see why not.

i am sure mr. gore purchases carbon offsets.... from his own company....

Carbon offsets are a joke, to make wealthy liberal socialites feel good about being hypocrites, because feeling good about yourself is what liberalism is all about.

vs. self-loathing which is what Right Wing Extremism is all about.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Sigh. The climate has always 'changed'. This trend will continue.

Is it safe for me to get back into my SUV now?

since Al Gore is still flying around in his private jet & having a motorcade deliver him to his speaking engagements, i don't see why not.

i am sure mr. gore purchases carbon offsets.... from his own company....

Carbon offsets are a joke, to make wealthy liberal socialites feel good about being hypocrites, because feeling good about yourself is what liberalism is all about.

vs. self-loathing which is what Right Wing Extremism is all about.

Validation is what the right is all about. If you didn't earn it, you don't get it, or in your case, you just don't get it.

Edited November 19, 2009 by Lone Ranger

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Carbon offsets are a joke, to make wealthy liberal socialites feel good about being hypocrites, because feeling good about yourself is what liberalism is all about.

Funny you should mention that. I booked tickets for my parents recently with KLM and was actually offered to buy carbon offsets at an additional cost. I don't remember exactly what the cost was but it was very little - like less than EUR 1.00 per passenger for a trip from Berlin to Tampa. Seemed odd. I left that alone...

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British Airways offers that option too for flights to India. We no longer fly British but even when we did, I always declined.