This introduces a significant
non-climatic warming bias into long - term records.
Not exact matches
It seems that the 1980s - 2000s «global
warming» was just a natural phenomenon, that was mistakenly exaggerated by some researchers who had failed to properly deal with the
non-climatic biases in their data.
Several researchers have pointed to various other indicators as evidence of «global
warming», e.g., Arctic sea ice records, ocean heat content measurements, or animal and plant migration patterns.However, all of these indicators are either too short to compare recent temperatures to temperatures before the 1950s, or else are affected by
non-climatic biases.
It is likely that global temperatures were just as
warm in the 1930s and 1940s, but that the estimates for recent temperatures have been affected by
non-climatic biases.
For this reason, some fraction of the apparent «global
warming» we have heard so much about is probably not real, but an artefact of the
non-climatic biases.
So, before we can start attributing any of the alleged «unusual global
warming» to «man - made global
warming», it is essential to first figure out how much of the apparent trends are real, and how much are a result of the
non-climatic biases.