He and other scientists emphasized that this year's 50 percent rebound stemmed from
normal weather variations, not an unusual climate shift.
Not exact matches
The team used a worldwide climate model that incorporated
normal month - to - month
variations in sea surface temperatures and sea ice coverage, among other climate factors, to simulate 12,000 years» worth of
weather.
Since nothing is happening beyond
normal variation in the climate or
weather, not even trends (with 1000 year plus cycles a short phase will look like a trend), then there is no measurable basis for claiming CO2 is changing the climate.
Albeit accurate, this recent 12 month data for each location should be considered statistically unreliable due to its brevity compared with «climate
normals» that have typical year - to - year
weather variations smoothed over standard periods (commonly 30 years).
I would also add that it is impossible to determine how much CO2 has affected warming, or what
weather effects might be the result of such warming or just from
normal variation.
Gallup's research discovered that about half the public associates warmer
weather with global warming (the other half sees it as
normal variation); fewer associate snow and cold
weather with global warming because «the connection [is] less intuitive.»
They sum up succinctly, «The current cold
weather in the UK is part of the
normal regional
variations that take place in the winter season.