Not exact matches
It is a small
signal that is not easy to detect amongst the natural variability; most of the anthropogenic
warming is still to come (the point of conducting science is to give an early warning, rather than just wait until the facts are
obvious to everyone).
As the publications cited were from the early oughts, it might also be appropriate to note that the Arctic
warming picture has passed from a less noticeable trend supporting the strong theory supporting
warming to
obvious with a strong
signal in the last 8 - 10 years.
Whether it is the unanimous opinion by scientists regarding the 18 - year «global
warming» pause; or the last 9 years for the complete lack of major hurricanes; or the inexplicable and surprisingly thick Antarctic sea ice; or the boring global sea level rise that is a tiny fraction of coastal - swamping magnitude; or food crops exploding with record production; or multiple other climate
signals - it is now blatantly
obvious the current edition of the AGW hypothesis is highly suspect.
That was exactly what Dr. Pielke insisted we should be doing: to ignore the
obvious that the
warming of the lower troposphere has halted, when averaged over the time period 1998 (or 2002) to the present, ignores the
obvious signal in the data.