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Warming/cooling patterns since 1900. The latest shift to cooling (source site: http://jisao.washington.edu/pdo/ per the PDO Index is charted below. Clicking on the hyperlink, you will find this statement (below) about warming: Major changes in northeast Pacific marine ecosystems have been correlated with phase changes in the PDO; warm eras have seen enhanced coastal ocean biological productivity in Alaska and inhibited productivity off the west coast of the contiguous United States, while cold PDO eras have seen the opposite north-south pattern of marine ecosystem productivity.
There is concern in the climate science community that we might be entering long term cooling phase. No point in debating that point, since it is far to early to predict a warming or cooling crisis. I highlighted (in red) the comment that supports my oft stated observation, that, to date, all that warming has done is increased the growing/production season(s).
The chart below, graphs warming and cooling cycles AND predicts an extension of the present "cooling" period, well into the next three decades. Of course, we are predicting weather, so anything could happen, but based on current trends and climate conditions, this is one of the possible modeled climate projections, again, per the chart below.
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After notes:
New
scientific discoveries are casting doubt on how much of the warming of the
twentieth century was natural and how much was man-made, and governments around
the world are beginning to confront the astronomical cost of reducing
emissions. Economists, meanwhile, are calculating that the cost of slowing or
stopping global warming exceeds the social benefits.”
So spoke
Senator James Inhofe on the Senate floor on May 17th, reading into the record
the mission statement of the climate conference he was scheduled to be speaking
at that very moment. Rather than addressing the Monday lunch session of
Heartland’s Fourth International Conference on Climate Change, the Ranking
Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works remained in Washington
The
Oklahoma Republican, who had assured attendees of last year’s ICCC on Capitol
Hill that no cap-and-tax bill would ever pass the Senate, now stood before
C-SPAN’s cameras doing what only one major news organization – Fox — had done
before him: acknowledging the existence and significance of the 700-plus
scientists, economists, policymakers, and concerned citizens gathering some 600
miles away in Chicago. And their collective objective to “build public
awareness of the global warming ‘realism’ movement,” so that “sound
science and economics, rather than exaggeration and hype” might “determine what
actions, if any, are taken to address the problem of climate change.”
Source of the above text : http://www.globalresearch.ca/post-climategate-towards-a-reassessment-of-the-global-warming-consensus/20017
Source of article by Don Easterbrook...classic denier credentials... a geologist, not a climate scientist, a professor - emeritus (retired) type - (typical of deniers). Members his own geology department at WWU, have criticized, and attempted to distance themselves from his views after Easterbrook testified before the Washington State Senate Energy Committee that carbon dioxide could not cause global warming.
ReplyDeleteAnother denier source cited by Smithson
Similar comments within the climate community are numerous. And who said that only "approved climate scientists" should be allowed to speak out or evaluate published data? The fact of the matter is this: the chart is the chart. It only documents RSS (satellite collected weather info).
DeleteKeep in mind that CO2 emissions continue during this period of "global temp stability/cooling." That this is a fact, is one of the concerns of present day, climate scientists. It is part of the reason Utopian Scientist were caught padding the books for the 13 stinking years prior to 2009.