Global
warming skeptics often cite contradictory reports from a generation ago warning of global cooling.
Not exact matches
Climate
skeptics often make precisely this claim, citing the
warming pause as evidence.
We
often see «
skeptics» suggest that the additional
warming stored in the ocean can't possibly come back to affect tropospheric temperatures in any meaningful way, but the record levels of energy being stored in the Indo Pacific
Warm Pool has impacted and made possible the record tropospheric temperatures Australia saw in 2013.
Given that
skeptics, taken as a whole, put forward a nearly infinite variety of
often conflicting and contradictory beliefs regarding global
warming and climate science, exactly what is a climate scientist supposed to agree with?
It has been
often said by climate
skeptics that the modern
warming peaked in 1998 and we are entering a period of decades of global cooling.
Many
skeptics contend that liberal environmental agendas are behind alarming global -
warming headlines, though
often skeptics bring policy agendas of their own.
This statement is
often used as a litmus test for belief regarding global
warming, i.e. you believe this statement (consensus) or you don't (
skeptic).
Now, since 2007, at the height of the global
warming scare tactics about arctic sea ice, the antarctic sea ice extents anomaly CONTINUOUSLY exceeds 1.25 Mkm ^ 2 for 3 years straight now, and is larger than 1.5 Mkm ^ 2 so
often for such long times that it is not even newsworthy on a
skeptic site.
People who challenge the claims of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are
often labeled «global
warming skeptics».
Assuming that you're one of those «
skeptics,» and looking at the range estimations of likely impact based energy balance that are
often promoted by «
skeptics» (although certainly there are many «
skeptics» who think that there is no possibility that ACO2 will
warm the climate to any measurable extent)-- then we can reasonably assume that you agree that there is a «fat tail» potential for high impact consequences from BAU.
As Figure 1 shows, over the last 37 years one can identify overlapping short windows of time when climate «
skeptics» could have argued (and
often did, i.e. here and here and here) that global
warming had stopped.
The claim is
often made that climate realists (a.k.a.
skeptics) can not point to peer - reviewed papers to support their position that there is no evidence of «dangerous global
warming:» caused by human emissions of so - called «greenhouse» gases, including carbon dioxide.
Fake
skeptics have been banging this drum so much that I am afraid even many scientists are being influenced into believing faulty conclusions repeated
often based on incorrect methods for assessing
warming trends.
The two make a range of
often - repeated claims by climate change
skeptics, including that there have been «no increase in frequency or intensity of storms, floods or droughts,» that sea ice isn't melting considerably, and that there is supposedly no scientific consensus regarding global
warming.
As has
often been the case, official climate science is now agreeing with what
skeptics identified several years ago: Antarctica is not
warming.
Weakening Solar Output Won't Slow
Warming Over Next Century One argument often cited by climate skeptics and global warming deniers is that solar cycles are responsible for at least part of the warming we're seei
Warming Over Next Century One argument
often cited by climate
skeptics and global
warming deniers is that solar cycles are responsible for at least part of the warming we're seei
warming deniers is that solar cycles are responsible for at least part of the
warming we're seei
warming we're seeing now.
Their paper notes, in spite of the fact that «the scientific consensus on global
warming and climate change is remarkable,» journalists — especially on television —
often treat it as «an unsettled controversy,» giving equal time to climatologists and
skeptics.
The Coordinating Lead Authors explained that «climate
skeptics»
often point to this
warm spell to question the IPCC for not acknowledging such
warm spells.
Just reminds me of the climate gate email that is not
often discussed where someone (I do nt recall who off hand) notes its good that the
skeptics at least have not yet made a point yet about the discrepancy between land and ocean temps, as the land should follow the sea and can not
warm at a faster rate for any physical reason.