The
GWPF (The Global Warming Policy Foundation) has been right all along. In a new report Hansen, Sato and Ruedy
(2013) acknowledge the existence of a standstill in global temperature
lasting a decade. This is a welcome contribution to the study of global
temperature. When others reached the same conclusion they have been
ridiculed; so this admission should provide some pause for reflection by
those who have attacked the very idea of a recent temperature
standstill, often without understanding the data, focusing on who was
making the argument and their alleged non-scientific motives. The bottom
line is that the recent global temperature standstill is a real event.
David Whitehouse, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 17 January 2013
The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow down in the growth rate of net climate forcing. --James Hansen et al., 15 January 2013
The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow down in the growth rate of net climate forcing. --James Hansen et al., 15 January 2013
The two major US temperature databases have released their consolidated
results for 2012, and as had been expected, global warming has failed to
occur for approximately the fourteenth year running. One of the US
agencies downgraded 2012 to tenth-hottest ever: it had been on track to
rank as 9th hottest. The tenth-hottest result comes from the US National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), one of the three main
global databases used to assess planetary temperatures and the only one
of the three not so far linked to political climate activism. -- Lewis
Page, The Register, 16 January 2013
Arctic sea ice extent today is, for all practical purposes, back to normal! That return to normal only means one thing. The “dramatic melt” of August 2012 had to have been reversed completely by an equally dramatic refreeze this winter. Unfortunately we’re not going to find any news stories about that in the media, are we? --P Gosslin, No Tricks Zone, 16 January 2013
According to a dynamic summary report on the home page of the IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group website called State of the Polar Bear, there are now 22,600-32,000 polar bears worldwide, when tallied by nation. This is a big change from the 20,000-25,000 that has been touted as the global polar bear population since 2005. If there could be as many as 32,000 polar bears worldwide, why have we not heard of this before? --Susan J. Crockford, Polar Bear Science, 8 January 2013
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