Editor: Just to be clear, warming trends have leveled off as of 1998. Scientists believe the trend could go on for another 5 to 10 years. What is curious to me, is the fact that while warming is on a level trend, green house gases have continued to increase. What does this mean? Well, it can only mean one thing: the earth compensates for much of the pollution we send into the atmosphere. Last year, there was a volcanic eruption in Argentina that pumped the equivalent of the auto pollution of 150 million cars for 20 years. How many such eruptions are there, each year.
Anyway, the Daily Caller story establishes the existence of climate slowdown.
Daily Caller:
U.K. scientists are saying the so-called “pause” in
global warming could continue to the end of the decade. But scientists
warned of accelerated temperature rises once the global warming hiatus
has ended.
For the last 15 years, global surface temperatures have not been
rising nearly as fast as most climate models predicted — a period called
the “pause” or “hiatus” in global warming. Scientists have offered
dozens of explanations for the warming hiatus, and now U.K. scientists
are saying the 15-year pause could go on for at least another five
years.
Scientists with the U.K.’s Met Office, the country’s top climate
agency, and the University of Exeter report there is a 25 percent chance
the hiatus in warming could go on for another 5 years, and a 10 percent
chance warming could be on pause for another 10 years. The study found a
less than 1 percent chance of another 20 years with little to no
warming.
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