Is a 17 -
year pause significant?
Not exact matches
In an email to lab employees, he promised that a «
pause» lasting less than a
year wouldn't cause «any
significant impact to mission deliverables.»
otherwise one always could claim a
pause, because one always can find a time period of x
years from the present point in time backward, for which the trend isn't statistically
significant.
Focusing on the «
pause» is mainly
significant in context of the comparison between climate model projections and surface temperatures... Attempts to spin 2014 as a possible «warmest
year» is exactly that: spin designed to influence the Lima deliberations....
I'd say that if «the
pause» continues for one more
year, it will not affect who «the public» views as credible to any
significant extent.
There is, after all, no
significant surface temperature
pause on the 84 % of the globe that is interpolated from weather stations on climate timescales greater than seventeen
years.
Of course that data is completely artificial so «60
year»
pause in that data could be no more
significant for a lack of warming than a 1
year pause in hadcrut4 would be.
Climategate's Phil Jones «insisted that 15 or 16
years is not a
significant period:
pauses of such length had always been expected, he said» in 2012
Attributed to Phil Jones: Yet he insisted that 15 or 16
years is not a
significant period:
pauses of such length had always been expected, he said.
A plateau or
pause of 30
years is very
significant.
And I assume the Sierra Club would issue a public retraction if confronted with the facts that the data are precisely as I described that over the last 18
years there has been no
significant warming and indeed that is why global warming alarmists invented the term «the
pause» to explain what they called the
pause in global warming because the data demonstrate what you just said, that the Earth is cooking and warming, is not back up by the data.
I would ask if the
pause is climatically
significant, so for that we look at the 30 -
year running mean.
In fact, there has been no statistically
significant warming at all for almost 17
years — as first reported by this newspaper last October, when the Met Office tried to deny this «
pause» existed.In its 2012 draft, the IPCC didn't mention it either.
It is indeed inconsequential, whts was, and still is, consequential is the believers answer 1)(at the beginning) there is is no
pause, you D9R 2)(later) there is
pause, but, don't worry, this is not
significant, models do happen to show «
pause» up to 15
years long 3)(later, when 15 yearthreshold passed)... see, warming resumed, so let's ignore what we previously said
While the majority of small business owners believe their enterprise will grow in the new
year, 50 percent say economic uncertainty continues to give them
pause, and 30 percent say the health of the economy as a whole is a
significant worry.