"Century warming" refers to the long-term increase in Earth's average temperature over a period of 100 years. It implies that the planet's overall temperature is gradually rising over time.
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If you like the late
20th century warming trend is like the curved ramp at the end of British aircraft carriers.
Nearly half of the 20th
century warming trend occurred from 1910 to 1945, but CO2 emissions didn't increase enough to explain most of the warming.
Yet, as this charts reveals, the
per century warming trends are remarkably similar with the fastest warming acceleration happening in the earlier period.
The only way one would not see a late 20th
century warming from these data sets is if you had the graph upside down.
I thought if CO2 is the principal driver of global warming, why did most of the 20th
century warming happen before 1940, while most of the CO2 accumulation happened after 1940?
This technique gives 21st
century warming at the low end of the spectrum of possibilities resulting from the different model - input scenarios.
However, it would be naive to conclude that the observed strong 20th
Century warming therefore also must have a natural cause.
It started with me citing the reasons why the sun can't be responsible for late 20th century and
21st century warming.
That late twentieth
century warming does not exist, despite Hansen having declared its existence in 1988.
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