Not exact matches
Clearly this is not a timescale of a global climate evolution
from «
natural causes», like the sun getting bigger or something.
In fact, they state that the data «
clearly show» that «strong
natural variability has been characteristic of the Arctic at all time scales considered,» and they reiterate that the data suggest «that the human influence on rate and size of climate change thus far does not stand out strongly
from other
causes of climate change.»»
The bicentennial trend lines
clearly diverge
from the past 30 or 50 or hundred years, and the most closely fitting explanation for this behavior is anthropogenic
causes shifting the trends leaving only a shadow of
natural variability superimposed on the sharp centennial scale rise, at about an order of magnitude smaller amplitude than the changes associated with GHGs and dampened by man - made aerosols.