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http://archive.is/0zQ9m http://archive.is/0zQ9m BTW I have a problem here. "Thirty years of data have been collected since Mr. Hansen outlined his scenarios —

by Arnt 8y ago

http://archive.is/0zQ9m http://archive.is/0zQ9m BTW I have a problem here. "Thirty years of data have been collected since Mr. Hansen outlined his scenarios — enough to determine which was closest to reality. And the winner is Scenario C." C is: "In that forecast, temperatures would rise a few tenths of a degree before flatlining after 2000." The North Pole is going. And not due to El Niño either (although El Niño may have delivered the final blow), there was a series of record summers between 2000 and El Niño. Nine of the ten hottest years since measurements started have been since that "flatline". I have a problem with serious publications publishing such opinions without real arguments. I mean, he may have a point, but how can one publish a statement such as "temperatures have flatlined since 2000" and not explain why https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_temperature_record#Warmest_years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_temperature_recor... looks the way it does? The article does mention El Niño around 2015. But I see record years in that table much earlier than 2015, when La Niña was still pushing temperatures down. I realise he isn't really arguing, just pretending. I suppose I should just get used to poor pretense.

pjc50 8y ago
> I realise he isn't really arguing, just pretending One of those articles where you can guess the content from the title and byline: "Pat Michaels and Ryan Maue, the director and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute’s Center for the Study of Science"
lucas_membrane 8y ago
Another thing is that Hansen's research focuses much more on how changes in the amount of various greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (along with changes in the size of icecaps, etc) relate to changes in the average surface temperature required so that which the earth will reach a new equilibrium, radiating as much energy as it receives from the sun, and he has emphasized that it is very difficult to forecast how quickly the earth will move toward any new equilibrium.

by Arnt 8y ago

pjc50 8y ago

> I realise he isn't really arguing, just pretending One of those articles where you can guess the content from the title and byline: "Pat Michaels and Ryan Maue, the director and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute’s Center for the Study of Science"

lucas_membrane 8y ago

Another thing is that Hansen's research focuses much more on how changes in the amount of various greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (along with changes in the size of icecaps, etc) relate to changes in the average surface temperature required so that which the earth will reach a new equilibrium, radiating as much energy as it receives from the sun, and he has emphasized that it is very difficult to forecast how quickly the earth will move toward any new equilibrium.