In 2009 climate industry said global temps. will rise faster than ever in coming 5 yrs. so pay billions. Not so, now 4 yrs. of flat temps, UK Met Office says could be 5 more years of flat temps
"A particularly hot
autumn and winter could add to the pressure on policy makers to reach a
meaningful deal at December's climate-change negotiations in Copenhagen."
"The world faces record-breaking temperatures as the sun's activity
increases, leading the planet to heat up significantly faster than
scientists had predicted for the next five years, according to a study.
The hottest year on record was 1998, and the relatively cool years since have led to some global warming sceptics claiming that temperatures have levelled off or started to decline. But new research firmly rejects that argument.
The research, to be published in Geophysical Research Letters,
was carried out by Judith Lean, of the US Naval Research Laboratory,
and David Rind, of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
The work is the first to assess the combined impact on global temperature of four factors: human influences such as CO2 and aerosol emissions; heating from the sun; volcanic activity and the El Niño southern oscillation, the phenomenon by which the Pacific Ocean flips between warmer and cooler states every few years.
The
analysis shows the relative stability in global temperatures in the
last seven years is explained primarily by the decline in incoming
sunlight associated with the downward phase of the 11-year solar cycle,
together with a lack of strong El Niño events. These trends have masked
the warming caused by CO2 and other greenhouse gases.
As solar activity picks up again in the coming years, the research
suggests, temperatures will shoot up at 150% of the rate predicted by
the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Lean and Rind's research also sheds light on the extreme average
temperature in 1998. The paper confirms that the temperature spike that
year was caused primarily by a very strong El Niño episode. A future
episode could be expected to create a spike of equivalent magnitude on
top of an even higher baseline, thus shattering the 1998 record.
The study comes within days of announcements from climatologists that the world is entering a new El Niño warm spell.
This suggests that temperature rises in the next year could be even
more marked than Lean and Rind's paper suggests. A particularly hot
autumn and winter could add to the pressure on policy makers to reach a
meaningful deal at December's climate-change negotiations in Copenhagen.
Bob Henson, of the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, said: "To claim that global temperatures have cooled since 1998 and therefore that man-made climate change
isn't happening is a bit like saying spring has gone away when you have
a mild week after a scorching Easter.""...via Tom Nelson
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UK Met Office 5 year citation:
7/22/13, "Global warming 'on pause' but set to resume," UK Telegraph, Nick Collins
"Surface temperatures around the world have not increased on average since the
late 1990s, causing some sceptics to suggest that climate change is not
happening as quickly as experts predict....
"The Met Office has predicted it could be another five years before surface temperatures begin to rise again, but said the current "pause" would not affect long-term global warming forecasts."...(parag. 5)
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1/18/13, “Climate change: scientists puzzle over halt in global warming,” Der Spiegel, by Axel Bojanowski (translation from German)
Chart by UK Met Office via Der Spiegel
"The
exact reasons of the temperature standstill since 1998, are not yet
understood, says climate researcher Doug Smith of the Met Office."...
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