Climate scientists come to terms with the lack of global warming
10:42 AM 04/26/2013
Despite the heated rhetoric from the Obama administration
and environmental groups about the urgency of global warming, climate
scientists have begun to come to terms with the lack of evidence of
catastrophic global warming over the last decade.
“While some climate scientists continue to resist the obvious that the climate system
is more complex than they assumed, others are starting to accept that
the multi-decadal climate projections provide very incomplete
simulations has to how the real climate system works,” Roger Pielke,
Jr., environmental studies professor at the Center for Science and
Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder,
told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Establishment media outlets have been reporting about the unexpected stabilizing global surface temperatures over at least the last decade, and even former NASA scientist and environmental activist James Hansen has recognized the decade-long lull.
This has frustrated some environmentalists who recently sent a letter to major news networks
urging them to have more coverage on global warming, and to stop
portraying the issue as a “two-sided debate” by featuring global warming
skeptics.
“The divergence of the real world observations from the multi-decadal climate predictions, both in terms of forecasting the magnitude of global warming and of changes in regional climate, is finally initiating a much overdue scientific debate on the level of our knowledge of the climate system,” Pielke added. “While there is no doubt that humans are altering the climate system, it is in a diverse variety of ways besides that caused by adding greenhouse gases such as C02.”
Pielke said that climate scientists are beginning to recognize that the natural climate forces and feedbacks play a larger role than previously thought.
“This is a highly complex calculation to make in the first place. The short period of time, only 10 years in which the increasing temperature has leveled, really doesn’t tell us very much other than the fact that temperatures may still be rising but just not as fast as they were before,” said Elgie Holstein, the senior director for strategic planning at the Environmental Defense Fund, told Fox News.
“The mainstream media cannot maintain the official man-made global warming narrative any longer,” Marc Morano of the climate skeptic website ClimateDepot.com told TheDC News Foundation. “With the lack of warming and the failure to shift the climate debate to ‘extreme weather,’ warmists are now losing once stalwart members of the media in promoting man-made climate fears.”
A study by Norwegian researchers from earlier this year found that global warming is less severe than was predicted by the United Nations climate authority. In fact, studies have been lowering their warming forecasts since the 2007 UN estimate.
“While some climate scientists continue to resist the obvious that the climate system
is more complex than they assumed, others are starting to accept that
the multi-decadal climate projections provide very incomplete
simulations has to how the real climate system works,” Roger Pielke,
Jr., environmental studies professor at the Center for Science and
Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder,
told The Daily Caller News Foundation.Establishment media outlets have been reporting about the unexpected stabilizing global surface temperatures over at least the last decade, and even former NASA scientist and environmental activist James Hansen has recognized the decade-long lull.
This has frustrated some environmentalists who recently sent a letter to major news networks
urging them to have more coverage on global warming, and to stop
portraying the issue as a “two-sided debate” by featuring global warming
skeptics.“The divergence of the real world observations from the multi-decadal climate predictions, both in terms of forecasting the magnitude of global warming and of changes in regional climate, is finally initiating a much overdue scientific debate on the level of our knowledge of the climate system,” Pielke added. “While there is no doubt that humans are altering the climate system, it is in a diverse variety of ways besides that caused by adding greenhouse gases such as C02.”
Pielke said that climate scientists are beginning to recognize that the natural climate forces and feedbacks play a larger role than previously thought.
“This is a highly complex calculation to make in the first place. The short period of time, only 10 years in which the increasing temperature has leveled, really doesn’t tell us very much other than the fact that temperatures may still be rising but just not as fast as they were before,” said Elgie Holstein, the senior director for strategic planning at the Environmental Defense Fund
, told Fox News.“The mainstream media cannot maintain the official man-made global warming narrative any longer,” Marc Morano of the climate skeptic website ClimateDepot.com told TheDC News Foundation. “With the lack of warming and the failure to shift the climate debate to ‘extreme weather,’ warmists are now losing once stalwart members of the media in promoting man-made climate fears.”
A study by Norwegian researchers from earlier this year found that global warming is less severe than was predicted by the United Nations climate authority. In fact, studies have been lowering their warming forecasts since the 2007 UN estimate.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/26/climate-scientists-come-to-terms-with-the-lack-of-global-warming/#ixzz2RfaGWLsP
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