Global warming 'not slowing down', say researchers

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=115141&CultureCode=en

Global warming 'not slowing down', say researchers

05 December 2011 Institute of Physics (IOP)

Researchers have added further clarity to the global climate trend, proving that global warming is showing no signs of slowing down and that further increases are to be expected in the next few decades.

They revealed the true global warming trend by bringing together and analysing the five leading global temperature data sets, covering the period from 1979 to 2010, and factoring out three of the main factors that account for short-term fluctuations in global temperature: El Niño, volcanic eruptions and variations in the Sun’s brightness.

After removing these known short-term fluctuations, the researchers, statisticians and climate experts from Tempo Analytics and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, showed that the global temperature has increased by 0.5°C in the past 30 years.. In all of the five global data sets, 2009 and 2010 were the two hottest years. In the average over all five data sets, 2010 is the hottest year on record.

Their study, published today, 6 December, in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters, comes at a time when global warming is at the forefront of the political agenda, with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) currently taking place in Durban.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/044022

[sam11111]

1. sulfur particles shot into stratosphere....or orbital sunshades..geoengineering to

Reverse the geoengineering called man-induced climate change.

Time to begin tests.

I favor the two in my headline.

[OKIsItJustMe]

3. Unfortunately, those only combat warming

They would do nothing (for example) to reverse the acidification of the oceans.

[Bob Wallace]

6. We've done those sulfur tests...

Review "global dimming" and "acid rain".

We can cool the planet temporarily but at the expense of forests, lakes and streams. And push the oceans into being vats of acid even faster than we are now doing.

Solar shades. It would probably be a lot cheaper just to get on with the chore of transitioning off of fossil fuels.

We've got a lot of people getting themselves born who are going to want to eat. Cutting solar input and slowing plant growth, perhaps not the best idea.

[guardian]

2. Would those researchers be these researchers?

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504383_162-5860171-504383.html

[OKIsItJustMe]

4. Skeptic decides global warming is real, but says there were good reasons to doubt it until now

http://www.syracuse.com/have-you-heard/index.ssf/2011/10/skeptic_decides_global_warming.html

Skeptic decides global warming is real, but says there were good reasons to doubt it until now

Published: Sunday, October 30, 2011, 1:16 PM Updated: Sunday, October 30, 2011, 1:28 PM

A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong. In the end, he determined they were right: Temperatures really are rising rapidly.

The study of the world's surface temperatures by Richard Muller was partially bankrolled by a foundation connected to global warming deniers. He pursued long-held skeptic theories in analyzing the data. He was spurred to action because of "Climategate," a British scandal involving hacked emails of scientists.

Yet he found that the land is 1.6 degrees warmer than in the 1950s. Those numbers from Muller, who works at the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, match those by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA.

He said he went even further back, studying readings from Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. His ultimate finding of a warming world, to be presented at a conference Monday, is no different from what mainstream climate scientists have been saying for decades.

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[OKIsItJustMe]

5. Reviews vindicating scientists get strong blog coverage, but more high-profile stories are needed

http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/wanted_climate_frontpager.php

The Observatory — July 7, 2010 04:30 PM

Wanted: Climate Front-Pager

Reviews vindicating scientists get strong blog coverage, but more high-profile stories are needed

By Curtis Brainard

Over the last two days, two reports have, respectively, reaffirmed the integrity of the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the scientists involved in the so-called “Climategate” affair. Unfortunately, while the reports have received a lot of attention in the blogosphere, high-profile coverage in newspapers and magazines has been woefully lacking.

On Tuesday, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, which advises the Dutch government, released a http://www.pbl.nl/en/publications/2010/Assessing-an-IPCC-assessment.-An-analysis-of-statements-on-projected-regional-impacts-in-the-2007-report.html">review of the IPCC’s 2007 http://www.ipcc-wg2.gov/index.html">report on the impacts of climate change. It found that report contained no errors that undermined the panel’s main conclusion that manmade global warming poses serious threats to human society. On Wednesday, independent investigators in the United Kingdom released their http://www.cce-review.org/">analysis of climate scientists at the University of East Anglia who were embroiled in a series of http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/hacked_emails_and_journalistic.php">controversial e-mails hacked and leaked from the university last year. The investigation found that, despite accusations of impropriety, the scientists had conducted their work with rigor and honesty.

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[NickB79]

8. You mean the researchers that were exonerated by SIX separate inquiries?

http://www.skepticalscience.com/The-question-that-skeptics-dont-want-to-ask-about-Climategate.html

You might as well be asking where Obama's birth certificate is; you'd be in good company with those folks.

[Viking12]

7. Second author's AWESOME blog

http://tamino.wordpress.com/