"so when the horse stumbles, you what? run it over?" +1
Retreating glaciers. Melting permafrost. Off-kilter bird migrations. Few of these reports are news to anyone following the global warming beat. Yet the first effort to gather thousands of scientific findings into a cohesive narrative of cause and effect has been published in the journal Nature.
"Apparently jb missed how it's been said a million times in a million different media outlets how 8 of the 10 warmest years on record have been in the last 10 years. That doesn't say "no net warming" or "cooling period" to me." "What record is that you speak of? 8 of the 10 hottest years in Earth's history? That is doubtful. While I'm glad this research is being done, I question the methodology. It looks like only the climatologists are the only group of scientists that can forgo the scientific method. How could you show natural variation couldn't produce the results? Did they take a slice of the earth removed from human influence? Ridiculous.." wmv715 on record means that in the time that humans have first handedly captured accurate measurements. Not the beginning of time or human exhistance, but in the last 150 years. "8 of the 10 warmest years on record" meaning in the last 150 years... that means that the last 10 years have been conciderably warmer than any decade for 150 years... I would have to agree that a cool down seems unlikely. If not nonexhistant... 90% is a pretty powerful number when coming from scientific studies that are related to global climate. Rather than scientists with no background saying yes or no as an opinion... And may I point out that this no net warming period that you talk of... Global warming may still be occuring because the sun has developed a new and larger sunspot (cooler areas of the sun) so the earth will be taking in less infrared energy thus masking the affects of global warming... yes some cinic will say well then what are we worrying about? the sun is cooler we made the earth warmer its all good!!!. trust me, rellying on somebody or, something else in this case, isn't good for business, and your wellfare... if you want to solve your own problem do it yourself. Please refrain from commenting on grammar... it gets really annoying...
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