Not exact matches
The state -
wide systemic reform movement of the 1990s taught us that state - led standards and testing systems would produce too
much variability in quality and alignment.
I don't think the last 12 years in isolation could provide
much evidence to confirm or falsify models (which do produce internal
variability, hence the
wide spread in short term trends), but taking those 12 years in comparison to the 12 before, and the last 24 years in comparison to the 24 before that, etc, and paleoclimatic evidence, etc, and model behavior is at least generally supported.
Lamb was an avid researcher who unearthed
much material still of value today and was convinced of the
wide natural
variability in climate he found all over the globe.
The problem is that there's also a lot of extra
variability in CET and that the available data is not sufficient for estimating well enough how
much CET can tell about the
wider temperature trends at other times.
They found a 60 - to 90 - year cycle in Barents and Greenland seas ice extent related to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO); the AMO is a basin -
wide cycle of sea surface temperature
variability similar to the El Niño and La Niña cycles in the Pacific, but varying over
much longer periods.
He found the pre-industrial level little different from the current level, and the
variability from year to year was
much wider than the ice core and Mauna Loa record showed.