Because the UHIE was not identified in
the early claims of global warming and allowed incorrect exaggerated claims.
Not exact matches
Western leaders began to leave Copenhagen in the
early hours
of Saturday morning,
claiming to have secured a
global agreement to keep
global warming below two degrees Celsius.
In the paper Gray makes many extravagant
claims about how supposed changes in the THC accounted for various 20th century climate changes («I judge our present
global ocean circulation conditions to be similar to that
of the period
of the
early 1940s when the globe had shown great
warming since 1910, and there was concern as to whether this 1910 - 1940
global warming would continue.
«It has been
claimed that the
early - 2000s
global warming slowdown or hiatus, characterized by a reduced rate
of global surface
warming, has been overstated, lacks sound scientific basis, or is unsupported by observations.
There were a number
of rather overheated
claims earlier this year that «all the
global warming had been erased» by the La Niña - related anomaly.
Its reassuring to hear from raypierre in 106 that
claims of accelerated
global warming is a feature
of the popular press rather than the scientific literature and that its not fair to say there's been an acceleration detected in the rate
of warming (relative to the
early part
of the 20th century).
In the
early 1990s, a group
of sceptics
claimed that Roger Revelle, one
of the first climate scientists, had changed his mind about
global warming and no longer believed it was a serious problem.
In
early 2008, the Oregon Institute
of Science and Medicine (OISM) published their Petition Project, a list
of names from people who all
claimed to be scientists and who rejected the science behind the theory
of anthropogenic (human - caused)
global warming (AGW).
But, the «Original Sin» associated with the heterogeneous mess
of the surface temperature record was perpetrated by James Hansen et el in the
early 1980's when they decided to use the surface temperature record to prove and / or justify their «junk science»
claims of CO2 causing Anthropogenic
Global Warming / Climate Change.
If there was any truth to the
claims that
global warming stopped in the last 10 years, or since 1998, or since 1995, or whatever the latest
claim is, then we can see from the
earlier 20th Century example that we would already be seeing clear signs
of that in declining trends over the last several 30 - year periods.
Popular outcry forced the Heartland Institute to pull down a controversial billboard that compared supporters
of global warming facts to Unabomber Ted Kaczynski [38], bringing an
early end to a planned campaign first announced in an essay by Heartland President Joseph Bast, which
claimed ``... the most prominent advocates
of global warming aren't scientists.