Not exact matches
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.
There are
periods when other factors might temporarily slow that rise such as the much - discussed global
warming «
pause» of the last decade, but the overall connection is clear.
They suggest this «
pause» in the acceleration of carbon dioxide concentrations was, in part, due to the effect of the temporary slowdown in global average surface
warming during that same
period on respiration, the process by which plants and soils release CO2.
So, within a
period of a month or so, we learn, first, that the much debated global
warming «
pause» is real after all (regardless of what the cause might be, which remains uncertain), and second, that widely held assumptions regarding extreme weather events caused by AGW, such as droughts and flooding, are unfounded.
A corollary of the prediction that Co2 would take up to 20 years to rise above the noise of natural variation is that natural variation could conceivable cause a «
pause» of up to 20 years, and so the recent short
period with a lack of
warming is totally consistent with Hansen's predictions.
The corrections have made
period just before the notorious hiatus colder (~ 1980 to ~ 2000) and the
pause period warmer.
It would provide a partial explanation for not only the «
pause» but 1910 - 1940
warming (mostly natural), the 1940 - 1980 (cooling / static
period offset by increasing (but lower) CO2 effects), and the 1980 - 1998
warm period (natural and ever increasing anthropogenic effects).
But the
pause can be disproved by picking the right ten year
period to show a «
warming trend.»
That has never come close to occurring during our modern
warm period, and the ongoing global
warming pause suggests that is unlikely to begin happening any time in the foreseeable future, either.
2 October, 2017 — The Pacific Ocean has reached the end of a
period of cooler temperatures, signalling the termination of the so - called
pause in global
warming.
And they analyse the double standards used when discussing the so - called «
pause» as compared to an equally long
period of rapid
warming, which in fact deviated more from the long - term trend than the recent phase of slower
warming.
1) This kind of study continues to reinforce the notion that natural cyclical changes in ocean to atmosphere energy transfers are a very signficant potential reason for both the
pause (as the ocean has retained more energy) and part of the big
warming during the 1976 - 1998
period.
Based on the same flawed reasoning to conclude an absence of a trend from the non-detectability of a trend in the limited data sample from 1997 to the end of 1994, I could claim a «global
warming stop» or «
pause» for that 16 - year
period.
The report claimed that the «
pause» or «slowdown» in global
warming in the
period since 1998 — revealed by UN scientists in 2013 — never existed, and that world temperatures had been rising faster than scientists expected.
Also, using the same cherry picking approach as used by «skeptics» for the recent time
period, based on which they claim a «global
warming stop» or «
pause» because of lacking statistical significance of a
warming trend, I even could claim a «
pause» in global
warming from 1979 to at least the end of 1997.
For example, see the whole «global
warming pause» meme, which said that global
warming had
paused because the linear trend was statistically insignificant over some time
period.
I can produce a similar figure for the recent 16 year
period, for which the alleged «global
warming stop», «
pause», or «standstill» is asserted by «skeptics» or even by Judith Curry.
The lack of statistical significance for the recent 16 - year
period is used as reasoning for the assertion of the «global
warming stop» or «
pause».
-- The figures reveal that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012 there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures — This means that the «
pause» in global
warming has now lasted for about the same time as the previous
period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996
The 1998 - now
period is
warmer than it would have been if you plotted the 1970 - 1997 temperature, then plotted a
pause.
This means that the «
pause» in global
warming has now lasted for about the same time as the previous
period when temperatures rose, 1976 to 1986
The near - linear rate of anthropogenic
warming (predominantly from anthropogenic greenhouse gases) is shown in sources such as: «Deducing Multidecadal Anthropogenic Global Warming Trends Using Multiple Regression Analysis» «The global warming hiatus — a natural product of interactions of a secular warming trend and a multi-decadal oscillation» «The Origin and Limits of the Near Proportionality between Climate Warming and Cumulative CO2 Emissions» «Sensitivity of climate to cumulative carbon emissions due to compensation of ocean heat and carbon uptake» «Return periods of global climate fluctuations and the pause» «Using data to attribute episodes of warming and cooling in instrumental records» «The proportionality of global warming to cumulative carbon emissions» «The sensitivity of the proportionality between temperature change and cumulative CO2 emissions to ocean mixing
warming (predominantly from anthropogenic greenhouse gases) is shown in sources such as: «Deducing Multidecadal Anthropogenic Global
Warming Trends Using Multiple Regression Analysis» «The global warming hiatus — a natural product of interactions of a secular warming trend and a multi-decadal oscillation» «The Origin and Limits of the Near Proportionality between Climate Warming and Cumulative CO2 Emissions» «Sensitivity of climate to cumulative carbon emissions due to compensation of ocean heat and carbon uptake» «Return periods of global climate fluctuations and the pause» «Using data to attribute episodes of warming and cooling in instrumental records» «The proportionality of global warming to cumulative carbon emissions» «The sensitivity of the proportionality between temperature change and cumulative CO2 emissions to ocean mixing
Warming Trends Using Multiple Regression Analysis» «The global
warming hiatus — a natural product of interactions of a secular warming trend and a multi-decadal oscillation» «The Origin and Limits of the Near Proportionality between Climate Warming and Cumulative CO2 Emissions» «Sensitivity of climate to cumulative carbon emissions due to compensation of ocean heat and carbon uptake» «Return periods of global climate fluctuations and the pause» «Using data to attribute episodes of warming and cooling in instrumental records» «The proportionality of global warming to cumulative carbon emissions» «The sensitivity of the proportionality between temperature change and cumulative CO2 emissions to ocean mixing
warming hiatus — a natural product of interactions of a secular
warming trend and a multi-decadal oscillation» «The Origin and Limits of the Near Proportionality between Climate Warming and Cumulative CO2 Emissions» «Sensitivity of climate to cumulative carbon emissions due to compensation of ocean heat and carbon uptake» «Return periods of global climate fluctuations and the pause» «Using data to attribute episodes of warming and cooling in instrumental records» «The proportionality of global warming to cumulative carbon emissions» «The sensitivity of the proportionality between temperature change and cumulative CO2 emissions to ocean mixing
warming trend and a multi-decadal oscillation» «The Origin and Limits of the Near Proportionality between Climate
Warming and Cumulative CO2 Emissions» «Sensitivity of climate to cumulative carbon emissions due to compensation of ocean heat and carbon uptake» «Return periods of global climate fluctuations and the pause» «Using data to attribute episodes of warming and cooling in instrumental records» «The proportionality of global warming to cumulative carbon emissions» «The sensitivity of the proportionality between temperature change and cumulative CO2 emissions to ocean mixing
Warming and Cumulative CO2 Emissions» «Sensitivity of climate to cumulative carbon emissions due to compensation of ocean heat and carbon uptake» «Return
periods of global climate fluctuations and the
pause» «Using data to attribute episodes of
warming and cooling in instrumental records» «The proportionality of global warming to cumulative carbon emissions» «The sensitivity of the proportionality between temperature change and cumulative CO2 emissions to ocean mixing
warming and cooling in instrumental records» «The proportionality of global
warming to cumulative carbon emissions» «The sensitivity of the proportionality between temperature change and cumulative CO2 emissions to ocean mixing
warming to cumulative carbon emissions» «The sensitivity of the proportionality between temperature change and cumulative CO2 emissions to ocean mixing»
In an interview with me last year another of the authors, Prof Michael Mann, described the
period of an alleged slowdown as the «faux
pause», saying that «global
warming hasn't stopped, even though you still hear those contrarian talking points.»
O.K., I didn't actually predict a
pause in the
warming but a possible
period of cooling.
«A reduction in the rate of
warming (not a
pause) is a result of short - term natural variability, ocean absorption of heat from the atmosphere, volcanic eruptions, a downward phase of the 11 - year solar cycle, and other impacts over a short time
period,» Cleugh says.
So it's quite understandable that — just as they tried to do with the «Medieval
Warming Period» and also «the decline» (which proved so troubling to Michael Mann and his pals)-- the alarmists are doing their damnedest to write the «
Pause» (or, if you will, «hiatus») out of scientific history.
According to a report in The Mail on Sunday, NOAA scientist Dr. John Bates has produced «irrefutable evidence» that the NOAA study denying the «
pause» in global
warming in the
period since 1998 was based on false and misleading data.
In summary, your argument pointing to the lacking statistical significance of the temperature trend estimate for a time
period is not sufficient empirical / statistical evidence or scientific justification for the claim that there was a «
pause» of global surface / troposphere
warming.
There was a
period of unforced
warming between 1925 and 1945, a
Pause in forced
warming from 1945 - 1975, and 1998 - 2013 (though rising aerosols may have caused some of the former
Pause).
While the AMO has not changed much in the past 10 years, the strong increase in North Atlantic temperatures between 1970 and 2000 may have contributed to the rapid rise in global temperatures over that
period, and the leveling - out of the AMO may help make the observed
pause in
warming more likely.
The data and the statistical analysis does not provide the evidence that the so called «
pause», a time
period with a lower trend estimate than the longer - term trend estimate, was more than just a short - term fluctuation around the median
warming trend, mostly due to short - term unforced internal variability in the Earth system (and some contribution from decreasing solar activity and increased reflecting aerosols in the atmosphere, counteracting the increased greenhose gas forcing to some degree), like the «acceleration» over the 16 - year
period from 1992 to 2007 (e.g., UAH trend: 0.296 + / - 0.213 (2 sigma) deg.
However, it is not just this
pause in the
warming that is puzzling, other problems include the absence of the tropospheric hot spot, the inability to describe the previous
periods, e.g. the Medieval, the Roman, and the Minoan
warm periods.
● That climate natural variability is powerful enough to fully compensate manmade global
warming (if any) and long term
pause (as observed since 1997) or even slight cooling
periods as observed from 1880 to 1910 or from 1940 to 1970.
The least - squares linear - regression trend on the RSS satellite monthly global mean surface temperature anomaly dataset continues to show no global
warming for 18 years 9 months since February 1997, though one - third of all anthropogenic forcings have occurred during the
period of the
Pause.
This means that the «plateau» or «
pause» in global
warming has now lasted for about the same time as the previous
period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996.
Finally, the current so - called
pause in temperature increase covers a
period starting with one of the two largest known El Nino (short term
warming) events known, and ends with two large La Nina (short term cooling) events.
How does this relate to the apparently predictable and patterned air temperature change recorded since 1880 (alternating 30 year
periods of
warming and
pause in
warming)?
I got an additional 15 minutes of blogosphere fame last year when I pointed out that according to CDIAC we had emitted a third of all human emissions since 1998, the start of the «
pause» in the current
warming period.