Sentences with phrase «meaningful about climate trends»

Secondly, year to year fluctuations are very large and simply reflect the chaotic nature of weather — the change over a single year does not say anything meaningful about climate trends.

Not exact matches

But what this really shows is the utter foolishness and willful ignorance at looking at short term trends and trying to extrapolate anything meaningful about long - term climate change.

Dr. Whitehouse can try and head this argument off at the pass about using previous years as starting points by calling this «cherry picking» but that's - nothing - compared to the slight - of - hand it takes to present this amount of data as if it were a meaningful representation of climate trends.

However, since climate models are better able to capture broad patterns of middle atmospheric pressure (which are strongly linked to precipitation) than precipitation itself, it's likely that we can still say something meaningful about trends in large - scale atmospheric patterns conducive to low precipitation (and, therefore, drought).

None of these could have been caused by an increase in atmospheric CO2, Model projections of warming during recent decades have greatly exceeded what has been observed, The modelling community has openly acknowledged that the ability of existing models to simulate past climates is due to numerous arbitrary tuning adjustments, Observations show no statistically valid trends in flooding or drought, and no meaningful acceleration whatsoever of pre-existing long term sea level rise (about 6 inches per century) worldwide, Current carbon dioxide levels, around 400 parts per million are still very small compared to the averages over geological history, when thousands of parts per million prevailed, and when life flourished on land and in the oceans.

The problem with the chart is that it starts in 1998 (not to mention thinking anything particularly meaningful about long - term climate trends can be extrapolated from 12 years — try this one instead).