Sentences with phrase «natural variability in climate just»

«Natural variability in climate just can't explain this moisture change.

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«It's important to determine where we believe that some of the recent trends in circulation could potentially be linked with climate change, rather than just natural variability,» Ted Shepherd, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Reading in the U.K., said in an email.

The knowledge gap may just have narrowed, however, with the publication of a new study in Nature (one of two we're reporting on this week, as it happens) that appears to move the explanation for one type of climate variability from the natural to the human camp.

Although there is still definitely a declining trend in Arctic sea ice (2009 and 2008 were still the second and third lowest sea ice extents, after 2007) there was a lot of hype surrounding the 2007 minimum even though that was partly just natural variability in the Arctic climate.

Slickly written blogs and sites against the wording from here make me realise how easy is it for a not skeptical enough mind (scientifically that is before you all jump on me) to take the bait and start thinking that doom in accelerating when indeed its just that as real climate have been stating for ever makre sure your time series is long enough to flush out the natural variability.

Soon and Baliunas just showed there was a mountain of evidence for the medieval warm period and other natural climate variability in history — a very good paper that is now accepted by climate science as more indicative of what actually occured in climate history.....

In 1990, two years after NASA scientist James E. Hansen issued his now famous warning about climate change during a congressional hearing, Lindzen started taking a publicly contrarian stance when he challenged then - senator Gore by suggesting in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society that the case for human - induced global warming was overstated and that natural climate variability could explain things just as easilIn 1990, two years after NASA scientist James E. Hansen issued his now famous warning about climate change during a congressional hearing, Lindzen started taking a publicly contrarian stance when he challenged then - senator Gore by suggesting in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society that the case for human - induced global warming was overstated and that natural climate variability could explain things just as easilin the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society that the case for human - induced global warming was overstated and that natural climate variability could explain things just as easily.

I'd just like to make sure I understood your post correctly: the common answer to the «contrarian talking point» that much of the observed recent climate change could just be caused by natural variability in the climate system is that this would imply, broadly speaking, heat being moved from the oceans to the atmosphere — whereas we observe the opposite, oceans storing heat.

Rud M Huber and Reto Knuttti just published a Nature Geosciences paper 17 Aug «Natural variability, radiative forcing and climate response in the recent hiatus reconciled» vol 7 Sep 2014 that purports to analyze the hiatus vs CMIP5 models and finds the pause consistent with a reduced complexity model and mean of models.

We now understand the complexity and natural variability of climate in ways that were unimaginable just 10 years ago.

In 1992, we had just completed the first IPCC assessment report, here was their conclusion: «The size of this warming is broadly consistent with predictions of climate models, but it is also of the same magnitude as natural climate variability... The unequivocal detection of the enhanced greenhouse effect from observations is not likely for a decade or more.