Responding to and
in the manner of KK Tung's UPDATE (and, you can quote me): globally speaking the slowing of the rapidity of the
warming, were it absent an enhanced
hiatus compared to prior
hiatuses, must at the least be interpreted as nothing more than a slowdown of the positive trend of uninterrupted global
warming coming out of the Little Ice Age that has been «juiced» by AGW as evidenced by rapid
warming during the last three decades of the 20th Century, irrespective of the fact that, «the modern
Grand maximum (which occurred during solar cycles 19 — 23, i.e., 1950 - 2009),» according to Ilya Usoskin, «was a rare or even unique event,
in both magnitude and duration,
in the past three millennia [that's, 3,000 years].»
«The climate models making dire predictions of
warming in the 21st century are the same models that predicted too much
warming in the early 21st century, and can't explain the
warming from 1910 - 1945 or the mid-century
grand hiatus,» Dr. Judith Curry writes
in a Wednesday op - ed published
in The Financial Post.
Scientists are not only having trouble explaining why global surface temperatures did not
warm for 15 years
in the 21st century, they still have not adequately explained why there was an even longer 30 - year «
grand hiatus»
in global
warming during the mid-20th century.