The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow down in the growth rate of net climate forcing. – James Hansen et al
The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow down in the growth rate of net climate forcing. – James Hansen et al
The other day I saw a story on the news about a record high tide in the Seattle area and, it was reporting that there would be more of them in the years to come. In fact the news said some currently inhabited areas would find them self’s underwater all the time during high tide. Although the news report didn’t say it I’m assuming that the implication was that this was due to global warming and rising sea levels. Does anyone here have any idea what would cause record tides other than rising sea levels??? I don’t think the sea levels are really rising but I can’t think of any other reason for truly record high tides.
Thanks, Dale…
“Gosh, I thought Hansen had claimed that “climate forcings” had overwhelmed natural variability?….Except when natural forcings overwhelm the human component of course.”
I liked those two lines. C-AGW relies on the idea that natural forces and natural variability are overwhelmed by human-made CO2 emissions. But when the concentration of CO2 increases without any significant warming for about 16 years then natural forces/variability are given as the reason. So, a 16 year temp plateau is natural and of little importance but any temperature record anywhere in the world or extreme weather event is due to C-AGW and something must be done. That is equivalent of religious fundamentalists claiming “God’s Will” and “God’s Wrath” to explain the tragic or unexpected. I guess CO2 works in mysterious ways, too. Sometimes it increases temperatures and other times it mysteriously hides heat away in an undiscovered location in the oceans. Mood swings?
As with most doomsday cults, doomsday keeps getting put off as each prediction comes a cropper. I’ll add Hansen’s climate “science” alchemy to my Mayan calendar doomsday file.
I don’t believe a word of that report. Extracting a small signal from a lot of noise (diurnal and annual variations; and of course a huge amount of political noise) is an unlikely project.
If one is looking at “black carbon” (diamonds are so much nicer) what about the output of large municipal incinerators? It is not included; but having lived for four years about a mile from one of Toronto’s big incinerators I can assure you that it can be pretty impressive. And what about the general urban aerosol? It is some mixture of black carbon, rubber from tires, and in coastal areas, the rather complex marine aerosol. It is plainly visible any clear night, BTW, if one looks at downtown Vancouver from Point Grey.
Can someone please translate this sophisticated sounding verbiage into plain English.
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Leonardo da Vinci
“The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade”
So have the hockey stick crowd been lying to us? Isn’t this the first recognition by a warmist that their fake data is truly fake?
No matter how hard I try, I just can’t see the downside of some global warming here in Canada. Just wish we could get some.
Dale- higher tides are normal in that part of the world and are an annual event. It has something to do with seasonal weather patterns. When there is a high pressure front over the area during this time, the water is “compressed” somewhat resulting in higher than normal tides. It has nothing to do with Global warming or climate change.
Hmmm, Andrew Weaver chorlted the other day “Global Warming is real. The hottest year on record was 2010. Arctic Iceee is at an alltime low last year.
HAs HAnsen left the reservation, or is Weaver just staying on the exaerration train , harder and faster?
Or is that his strategy to get his NDP nomination?
Thanks Sarnia. I was wodering because it really was a record tide. However, I know damn good and well not to believe the spin. I do wish the news media would give us a little bit more real information about the causes of the record tide. Dle…