By JUSTIN GILLIS JAN. 21, 2014 Two government agencies said Tuesday that 2013 was among the warmest years in the global temperature record, though they differed on exactly where it ranked. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ranked it as the fourth-warmest year since 1880, tied with 2003. NASA, which uses slightly different methods to compile global temperatures, ranked 2013 as the seventh-warmest year, tied with both 2006 and 2009. Both agencies say that the 14 warmest years in the historical record have all occurred since 1998. Australia was a global hot spot in 2013, suffering the warmest year on record in 104 years. But the United States, which had set a record in 2012, had only its 37th warmest year on record in 2013.
In a joint press conference NOAA and NASA have just released data for the global surface temperature for 2013. In summary they both show that the ‘pause’ in global surface temperature that began in 1997, according to some estimates, continues. Statistically speaking there has been no trend in global temperatures over this period. Given that the IPCC estimates that the average decadal increase in global surface temperature is 0.2 deg C, the world is now 0.3 deg C cooler than it should have been. –David Whitehouse, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 21 January 2014 The Sun’s activity has plummeted to a century low, baffling scientists and possibly heralding a new mini-Ice Age. “I’ve been a solar physicist for 30 years, and I’ve never seen anything quite like this,” Richard Harrison, head of space physics at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, told the BBC. The lull is particularly surprising because the Sun has reached its solar maximum, the point in its 11-year cycle where activity is at its peak. –News.com Australia, 19 January 2014 The Sun’s activity has plummeted to a century low, baffling scientists and possibly heralding a new mini-Ice Age. “I’ve been a solar physicist for 30 years, and I’ve never seen anything quite like this,” Richard Harrison, head of space physics at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, told the BBC. The lull is particularly surprising because the Sun has reached its solar maximum, the point in its 11-year cycle where activity is at its peak. –News.com Australia, 19 January 2014 Just when those computer programs predicted carbon dioxide-driven temperatures going orbital and sea levels flooding Capitol Hill, something went terribly wrong. Global temperatures went flat, and have stayed that way now since the time most of today’s high school students were born. If you thought global warming was scary, here’s an alternative to consider. Some really smart scientists predict that Planet Earth is now entering a very deep and prolonged cooling period attributable to 100-year record low numbers of sunspots. –Larry Bell, Forbes, 21 January 2014 The European Commission has finally begun rolling http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/01/...temperature-standstill-continues/#more-102000
Que futurecunts calling you an idiot right winger and declaring there is no pause in rising temps in...3...2...1...
Global warming has not slowed down at all. Zero, zilch, nada. The oceans hold over 90% of the earth's heat.
Yes, and notice how their heat has increased with no 15 year pause. So now you know that saying that the earth stopped warming 15 years ago is totally wrong. Right? Please tell me that you understand this. I still hold out hope for you as being a rational righty.