Comments on: Evidence that global warming has stopped

By: GregH

GregH — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 14:16:48 +0000

No sir, if Global Warming was real, everyone, from governments to the military to insurance companies would be sitting around the pool drinking fizzy drinks and saying, “Boy, I sure hope the public never finds out about this. Nah, they’ll never notice that the weather is changing or that Spring shows up two weeks early or that all those glaciers are melting.” Everything would be business as usual, kind of like it has been for the last 30 years.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 10:41:47 +0000

If Global Warming was real, we would not be constantly attacked with propaganda about it. It would remain hidden, just like any real ecological problem. Those discussing it and trying to warn the people would be ridiculed. The governments and organization would not embrace them, invest in them, fund them, or help them in their efforts.

When we see such an effort for an ecological problem, it has to be mere marketing for new products and services, transfer of market power, etc. Global Warming is a new industry based on a theory, and nothing more.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 20:52:20 +0000

Steve I fixed that link for for you. Sorry, blog policy, no links to bs sites in the comments.

From that source, “To claim global warming stopped in 1998 overlooks one simple physical reality – the land and atmosphere are just a small fraction of the Earth’s climate (albeit the part we inhabit). The entire planet is accumulating heat due to an energy imbalance. The atmosphere is warming. Oceans are accumulating energy. Land absorbs energy and ice absorbs heat to melt. To get the full picture on global warming, you need to view the Earth’s entire heat content….”

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 19:39:11 +0000

I don’t know if global warming has stopped, my opinion is the current decline from the rising that occured in the 70s 80s and 90s is because of the amount of sulfur being emitted from emerging nations, especially China, along with the CO2 produced in burning coal. Sulfur in the air reduces the amount of sun energy reaching the earth. However CO2 remains in the air much longer than sulfur, so if we can reduce world wide coal burning the warming may resume, maybe faster than ever. There was a 30 year pause in global warming from 1945 to 1975 that may have been due to high sulfur production by the US and others during the industrialization after WW2.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 19:02:19 +0000

You run a science blog but you don’t look at data do you. The 3 major global average temperature data bases, GISS, NCDC, and HADCRUT4 all show cooling trends in the 5 and 10 year running averages. That is data, and that is not warming, that is cooling. Here is the link: http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-stopped-in-1998.htm

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:06:10 +0000

Last year was WARMER than any year on record. The last ten years are WARMER than any previous ten years on record. The current year promises to be WARMER than all but maybe 5 or 6 of all the years on record.

Warmer. Warming. And warm. All of them.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 17:32:10 +0000

Does a grown man running a science blog really not understand the difference between warm and warming? Warm means above average temperature. Warming means the temperature is increasing. Is that so complicated? If the global average temperature is 70, and the last ten years have been 80, then the last ten years have been warm but there has been no warming. By the logic in this article any temperature above the average is warming. So consecutive years of average temperatures of 80, 79, 78, 77, 76 and 75 is global warming because all of the values are above 70.

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By: Cat

Cat — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 02:05:44 +0000

Just like to say thank you Greg for this and all the previous info given about the state of our planet.

I’m not a scientist so plenty goes over my head, and it can be hard to tell if someone is being honest or has some other hidden agenda.

You’re straight forward and back it up with legitmate figures so I get a lot of my global warming news from you.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 14:16:48 +0000

Sean, I interpret it that way. The thing is, the average global temperature has risen over these various periods of time. What has happened is that there was a period of more rapid rise followed by a period of less rapid rise of surface temperatures, and this second period of less rapid rise of surface temperatures is associated with a more rapid rise in deep sea temperatures.