The phrase
"to explain the warming" means to give an understanding of the reasons or causes behind an increase in temperature. It involves providing explanations or clarifications about why the Earth is getting warmer.
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It is very much the mainstream view in the climate research community that you can not
explain the warming of the past few decades without anthropogenic and human influences on climate.
It is very much the mainstream view in the climate research community that you can
not explain the warming of the past few decades without anthropogenic and human influences on climate.
Rising CO2 [carbon dioxide] levels can
easily explain the warming, but there is no alternative explanation that does not involve rising CO2 or predict further warming.
Their findings: natural influences such as changes in the amount of sunlight or volcanic eruptions did not
explain the warming trends, but the results matched when increasing levels of greenhouse gas emissions were added to the mix.
The issue is not whether «climate denial» is right or wrong, but rather that the explanations pertaining to the greenhouse conjecture just simply don't adhere to well known physics, and ignore the physics
which explains the warming of the surface by non-radiative processes.
This isn't a puzzle; climate scientists are well aware of several contributing factors, as a recent Reuters article — «Climate scientists struggle to
explain warming slowdown» — eventually discussed.
Getting the «right» answer (i.e.
explaining the warming from 1970 - 2000) for the wrong reason (i.e. CO2) simply has not been eliminated as a serious consideration, and hence an «extremely likely» conclusion is highly inappropriate.
Jochem Marotzke and Piers M. Forster have now
explained the warming pause in terms of random fluctuations arising from chaotic processes in the climate system.
For example, there are not sufficient observations of the uptake of heat, particularly into the deep ocean, that would be one of the possible mechanisms to
explain this warming hiatus.»
The urban heat effect has been discounted and can not
explain the warming oceans, says Thomas Wigley, a climatologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado.
The dense carbon dioxide atmosphere often invoked to
explain the warm era should have left its mark on the planet's geology, as carbon and oxygen sequestered in carbonate minerals.
Given that it can not
explain those warming episodes and given that it accepts that CO2 did not cause those warming episodes, it makes its logical failure with respect to the late 1970s / late 1990s warming even more pronounced.
I remember an article in SKS where it was stated that the orbital forcing did not
explain the warming coming up out of the last ice age.
Climate scientists claim carbon dioxide emissions are driving the global warming trend since 1950, but they have
trouble explaining warming that occurred early in the 20th century.
In contrast, I show that these cycles match the satellite record nicely and
explain the warm bump of this period: Loehle, C. 2009.
Then, based solely on computers programmed to guarantee the outcome, they conclude with over 90 percent certainty that increased human
CO2 explains the warming of the last 50 + years (1950 to 2007).