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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
What utter rubbish.
While you won't hear this on 2GB, a quick look at almost all peer reviewed climate journals shows that Earth has warmed since 1880.
Most of this warming has occurred since the 1970s, with the 20 warmest years having occurred since 1981 and with all 10 of the warmest years occurring in the past 12 years.
Even though the 2000s with a solar output decline resulting in an unusually deep solar minimum in 2007-2009, surface temperatures continue to increase.
While surface warming has slowed..it's still going up....and more disturbingly the deep ocean is warming at an alarming rate.
As for the Sun being boring....my H-alpha filter seems to show the Sun is quite active perhaps that PST needs some work?? |
When temperature rises and then stops rising - well it stays at the same level - which means that it hasn't risen or fallen.
So, when you say 10 of the warmest years occurred in the last 12 years, that is an irrelevance as it in no way disproves my statement that the earth's temperature has entered a hiatus.
Far from being rubbish spouted by 2GB, the existance of the "hiatus" is acknowledged in the 5th Assessment Report of the UN's Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change. Perhaps you can approach them and tell them that their statement is rubbish?
Regards,
Renato