«Global mean time series of surface - and satellite - observed low - level and total cloud cover exhibit very large discrepancies, however, implying that artifacts exist in one or both data sets... The surface - observed low - level cloud cover time series averaged
over the global ocean appears suspicious because it reports a very large 5 % - sky - cover increase between 1952 and 1997.
«Global mean time series of surface - and satellite - observed low - level and total cloud cover exhibit very large discrepancies, however, implying that artifacts exist in one or both data sets... The surface - observed low - level cloud cover time series averaged
over the global ocean appears suspicious because it reports a very large 5 % - sky - cover increase between 1952 and 1997.
Not exact matches
Winds
over the Atlantic
Ocean also
appear to modulate
global surface temperatures, albeit to a lesser extent than those
over the Pacific
Ocean.
Although
global warming
appears to have taken a breather
over the past decade and a half, the leveling off of average
global temperatures is likely just a temporary phenomenon that is due to other climate influences from the sun's radiance level to natural temperature oscillations in the Pacific
ocean.
I'm very convinced that the physical process of
global warming is continuing, which
appears as a statistically significant increase of the
global surface and tropospheric temperature anomaly
over a time scale of about 20 years and longer and also as trends in other climate variables (e.g.,
global ocean heat content increase, Arctic and Antarctic ice decrease, mountain glacier decrease on average and others), and I don't see any scientific evidence according to which this trend has been broken, recently.