Climategate II: leaked emails show struggle to deal with warming lull
Published September 20, 2013
Associated Press
STOCKHOLM – Scientists working on a landmark U.N. report on climate change are struggling to explain why global warming appears to have slowed down in the past 15 years even though greenhouse gas emissions keep rising.
Leaked documents obtained by The Associated Press show there are deep concerns among governments over how to address the issue ahead of next week’s meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Climate skeptics have used the lull in surface warming since 1998 to cast doubt on the scientific consensus that humans are cooking the planet by burning fossil fuels and cutting down CO2-absorbing forests.
The IPCC report is expected to affirm the human link with greater certainty than ever, but the panel is under pressure to also address the recent lower rate of warming, which scientists say is likely due to heat going deep into the ocean and natural climate fluctuations.
“I think to not address it would be a problem because then you basically have the denialists saying, ‘Look the IPCC is silent on this issue,”‘ said Alden Meyer, of the Washington-based Union of Concerned Scientists.
https://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/09/20/warming-lull-since-18-haunts-climate-change-authors/
The scientists had a summary. Why would a non-scientist cherry pick one fact and act as if they discovered something that 1,000 scientists missed?
people who work for the UN are NOT scientists they are bureaucrats
The committee was scientists.
https://www.ipcc.ch/organization/organization_structure.shtml#.Ukql2su9KSM
But it is still fascinating that a non-scientist believes that he/she has discovered something in the results that over 1,000 scientists missed. What an ego.
name some and what is there PHD in???
I can’t do all of your work.
https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/ar5/ar5_authors_review_editors_updated.pdf
The story has been told repeatedly: a vast majority of climate scientists say that global warming and that man is a significant contributing factor.
No scientific academy or scientific body has come out and said that anthropogenic global warming isn’t real.
I think you need to do your research al gore is not a scientist
Hmm, if I say that there is global warming, I get a grant and get to keep my job. If I say there is no global warming there is no need for me, a grant for me, or my job. As a result, I can say without a doubt that there is global warming. What? Oh, sorry, I mean man made climate change which can include warming but does not have to.