The only way, the last decade could not have been the «warmist ever», is if a cooling trend had set in over the whole decade, that was equal or greater than
the previous warming decades trends.
Not exact matches
The report found, among other things, that 43 of the lower 48 U.S. states have set at least one monthly heat record since 2010, sea levels are expected to rise between one and four feet by the end of this century, winter storms have increased in intensity and frequency, and the past
decade was
warmer than every
previous decade in every part of the country.
The finding challenges
previous arguments that a hot spot north of Cape Hatteras over the past few
decades was due to a slowdown of circulation in the North Atlantic, which is itself due to global
warming.
The deceleration in rising temperatures during this 15 - year period is sometimes referred to as a «pause» or «hiatus» in global
warming, and has raised questions about why the rate of surface
warming on Earth has been markedly slower than in
previous decades.
Johnson hypothesizes that
warmer ocean temperatures in 2012 and 2013, which were 1.3 °C higher than the
previous decade's average, allowed the crabs to move north.
It refers to a period of slower surface
warming in the wake of the 1997 - 98 super El Niño compared to the
previous decades.
Likewise, we find that natural variability, this last
decade warming on the low end compared
previous decades, the lack of coverage in the Arctic and so on may have played a role in Lewis» underestimating transient climate sensitivity:
The Western Antarctic Peninsula has been rapidly cooling since 1999 -LRB--0.47 °C per
decade), reversing the
previous warming trend and leading to «a shift to surface mass gains of the peripheral glacier» (Oliva et al., 2017).
The rate of ocean
warming has nearly doubled since 1992 compared with the
previous three
decades.
It is to be noted here that there is no necessary contradiction between forecast expectations of (a) some renewed (or continuation of) slight cooling of world climate for a few
decades to come, e.g., from volcanic or solar activity variations; (b) an abrupt
warming due to the effect of increasing carbon dioxide, lasting some centuries until fossil fuels are exhausted and a while thereafter; and this followed in turn by (c) a glaciation lasting (like the
previous ones) for many thousands of years.»
The past
decade, at the very least, has not seem the same rate of
warming as the
previous two
decades (all natural variability such as ENSO accounted for).
If, in its negative mode, it can fully counteract anthropogenic
warming then in its positive mode it made a large contribution to
warming in the last
decades of the
previous century.
Three of the four global average temperatures indeed are decreasing in their trends (although the actual global mean temperatures are still
warmer than the
previous decades).
Meehl (2013) is an update to their
previous work, and the authors show that accelerated
warming decades are associated with the positive phase of the IPO.
That was a very extreme signal — far outside the
previous variation — yet its also rather hard to fit into std GW theory, because it would be extreme even under
warming to be expected in the next few
decades (I think).
Solar activity has been the highest in the
previous 4 centuries: http://www.climate4you.com/images/SolarIrradianceReconstructedSince1610%20LeanUntil2000%20From2001dataFromPMOD.gif The empirical data from peer reviewed science, Hatzianastassiou (2005), Goode (2007), Pinker (2005), Herman (2013), McLean (2014), shows that during the last 2
decades of the 20th century when most of the late 20th century
warming occurred, the amount of solar radiation reaching the earth's surface increased by 2.7 W / m ² to 6.8 W / m ².
Still, each of the past three
decades have been
warmer than all of the
previous decades since the mid-1850s, when regular record - keeping began, the draft says.
BTW, the authors continue considering both the LIA and the MWP as valid concepts, contrary to Mann et al. 2) Even though they have little confidence in temperature reconstructions
previous to AD 1600 and very little for those
previous to AD 900, the authors consider that Mann et al's claim of the last
decades being
warmer than any such period in the past millennium is nonetheless plausible.
Yes, and I suppose when they do they will understand you can't ignore a troposphere that isn't
warming at the appropriate rate to the surface; you can't ignore a stratosphere that isn't cooling at the appropriate rate per
decade; you can't ignore an ocean that isn't
warming despite an assumed large energy imbalance; you can't ignore that if you declare a long lag time or a large long term climate sensitivity then
previous forcings are subject to the same principles; and you can't ignore that the rate of
warming was no different this last time then the time before it and the time before that.
tt, Your claim that each
decade has been 0.1 C
warmer than the
previous is false.
Tamino provides a nice simple graphic showing that global temperature remains within the projected range based on
previous decades of
warming:
There was a spike in 1998, after which temperatures were lower — but still
warmer than
previous decades — that led some climate sceptics to claim that the world was cooling.
Previous projections had suggested a
warming of 0.15 to 0.3 °C per
decade for 1990 to 2005.
The sheaf of explanations for the apparent slight slowdown of surface
warming since 1998, relative to the
previous two
decades, all help to reduce «noise» by assigning explicit mechanisms to previously - unexplained variation.
Each future
decade will be about 0.15 — 0.2 deg C
warmer than the
previous decade unless atmospheric CO2 levels are bought under some control.
At every even
decade starting with 1880 one could forecast that global
warming had halted on the basis of that
decade having cooled relative to the
previous decade.
«They» predicted that every
decade would be between 0.15 and 0.2 degC
warmer than the
previous decade.
Each
decade is
warmer than the
previous.
Even though the ocean has
warmed strongly, global «surface»
warming in the 21st century has been slower than
previous decades.
Each successive year will not necessarily be
warmer than the year before, but on the current course of greenhouse gas increases, scientists expect each successive
decade to be
warmer than the
previous decade.
1) Global
warming rate of 0.15 deg C per
decade from 1910 to 1940, which gives a global
warming of 0.45 deg C during the
previous 30 - years
warming phase
Comparing the global temperature at the time of the most recent three La Ninas (1999 - 2000, 2008, and 2011 - 2012), it is apparent that global temperature has continued to rise between recent years of comparable tropical temperature, indeed, at a rate of
warming similar to that of the
previous three
decades.
Since the very
warm surface temperatures of 1998 which followed the strong 1997 - 98 El NinÌ o, the increase in average surface temperature has slowed relative to the
previous decade of rapid temperature increases, with more of the excess heat being stored in the oceans.
Those ten years also continued an extended period of accelerating global
warming, with more national temperature records reported broken than in any
previous decade.
1998
Warmest decade 2000 -2009 The trend calculator shows from a
previous post that we are still trending upward stronger than the author of coyote blog shows..
They wrote that Dyck, Soon and their collaborators ignored data from the
previous decade that showed that as the climate
warmed, the sea ice is melting earlier each spring, sending polar bears ashore for longer periods of time in progressively poorer condition.
This ties in to our
previous posts noting that global
warming is accelerating; but that over the past
decade, most of that
warming has gone into the oceans (including the oft - neglected deep oceans).
The world's oceans have
warmed at twice the rate of
previous decades and the extra heat has reached deeper waters, finds data stretching back to 1960.
Both wetland drying and the increased frequency of
warm dry summers and associated thunderstorms have led to more large fires in the last ten years than in any
decade since record - keeping began in the 1940s.9 In Alaskan tundra, which was too cold and wet to support extensive fires for approximately the last 5,000 years, 105 a single large fire in 2007 released as much carbon to the atmosphere as had been absorbed by the entire circumpolar Arctic tundra during the
previous quarter - century.106 Even if climate
warming were curtailed by reducing heat - trapping gas (also known as greenhouse gas) emissions (as in the B1 scenario), the annual area burned in Alaska is projected to double by mid-century and to triple by the end of the century, 107 thus fostering increased emissions of heat - trapping gases, higher temperatures, and increased fires.
-- IPCC has been clear in its wording — no «coffee pauses» were postulated, but a clear
warming of 0.2 C per
decade was projected by the models for «he next two
decades» in AR4 (and a
warming of 0.15 C to 0.3 C per
decade in the
previous TAR)-- In AR4 Ch.10, Figure 10.4 and Table 10.5, IPCC show us how the projected
warming of the early
decades ties into the longer - term forecast for the entire century, IOW the
warming of the early
decades is an integral part of the «entire postulated journey»..
I mean if, as Nurse is now suggesting, the scientific mainstream understanding of global
warming is that it's happening but that it's open to debate how significant it is then doesn't this completely contradict pretty much everything he, the Royal Society, and its two previous presidents Lords Rees and May have been doing this last decade or more to stoke up the Anthropogenic Global Warming scare for all they're
warming is that it's happening but that it's open to debate how significant it is then doesn't this completely contradict pretty much everything he, the Royal Society, and its two
previous presidents Lords Rees and May have been doing this last
decade or more to stoke up the Anthropogenic Global
Warming scare for all they're
Warming scare for all they're worth?
Helen Cleugh, science director at CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Flagship, says measurements do show that the rate at which global mean surface temperature has
warmed in the past
decade is less than the
previous decade.
If it was true that Jones and Hansen had adjusted recent data upwards and past data downwards then BEST would have found less
warming in recent
decades and more
warming in
previous decades.
Ok, so then are you saying that if we follow my rule for picking
decades of only allowing years that are multiples of ten when specifying ranges, the last
decade warmed almost as fast as the
previous one, but if we follow your rule of only allowing years that are congruent to 1 mod 10, per the fencepost error that makes the year 1990 part of the 1980's, then the
warming paused during the last
decade?
As noted in a
previous post this week, right after the IPCC famously declared that the 1990s were likely the
warmest decade of the past millennium, they stated: «Evidence does not support the existence of globally synchronous periods of cooling or
warming associated with the «Little Ice Age» and «Medieval
Warm Period»» (Third Assessment Report, Chap.
But it does show that the IPCC forecasts of 0.2 C
warming per
decade (made both in the AR4 and
previous TAR reports) were incorrect.
From 1880 onwards the
previous warmest 70 year span in the record back to 1540 were exceeded, and each
decade since then has been
warmer than the
previous decade.
The same storms that brought more snow inland have also brought
warmer ocean currents to the ice shelf, which has then thinned rapidly, even as the fresh loose snow has continued to pile onto the impacted ice of
previous decades.
Basil Newmerzhycky: I won't bore you with the «2014 will be
warmest year of all» hype, but it is almost certain, and with a greater likelihood of an accelerated
warming trend well into the next
decade at twice the rate of the
previous one, similar to the 0.2 deg C.
Yes, for the Northern Hemisphere, the last
decade of the twentieth century was
warmer than the two or three
previous.