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I suppose it was due to the so-called "global warming hiatus": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_hiatus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_war

by Tade0 4y ago

I suppose it was due to the so-called "global warming hiatus": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_hiatus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_hiatus IIRC it was the most repeated counter-argument back then. Of course the 2010s showed that there was no counter-argument to begin with.

origin_path 4y ago
The 2010s didn't show there was no counter-argument to begin with re: the hiatus/pause. What actually happened is that climatologists rewrote the temperature data of that period to simply remove the pause from history. In other words, having spent >10 years publishing scientific papers and studies on the causes of the pause in warming, they one day just announced that it'd never happened at all, that all that research had been on bad data and they'd "found" warming. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.17700 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.17700 Of course trust falls when that happens. It's correct for trust to fall. They'd been making hyper-confident assertions about the future of climate and temperature for many people's entire lives and then one day, whoops, actually, it's "we've not been measuring temperature right for the entire history of our field and it fundamentally changes the entire shape of the data".