Global warming at a standstill, new Met Office figures show — ‘Downgraded its forecast for global warming to suggest that by 2017 temps will have remained about same for 2 decades’
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UK Met Office cuts projected 2017 temperature by 38%
As physicist Dr. Clive Best notes in a post today,
“What is really going on here is that their sophisticated climate models are being continuously tuned so as to “backcast” and agree with past temperature data. There has been no warming for 17 years. As a result the parameters are now showing little AGW at all for the next 10 years.
A scientist should ask the following question. If predictions of global climate models from just 2 years ago have now been invalidated by the data, how can we now have any faith in new predictions made with the same models but with various fudge factors added?”
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Claims of ‘Warmest Year’ For Continental U.S. (Less than 2% of Earth’s Surface) Ignore Flat Global Temperature Trend
Reality Check: Meteorologist Joe Bastardi: ‘If you used the stations used in 1930s — in other words –measured temps today with what we used in 1930s, it is not warmest year on record’ —‘We have many more stations and so many, many more records that can be broken over shorter time spans. US is only 2% of the globe that’s only .04 above’
New Report: ‘Extreme Weather Report 2012’: ‘Latest peer-reviewed studies, data & analyses undermine claims that current weather is ‘unprecedented’ or a ‘new normal’
Leading German Daily Announces: ‘Global Warming Has Stopped’, Questions IPCC Models It took them 15 years to notice it: CO2 is not driving the climate — ‘German online daily Hamburger Abendblatt here has a story titled: Global Warming Takes A Break, citing the leaked copy of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, which is due to be released in September, 2013’
UK Daily Mail: ‘GLOBAL warming is NOT as bad as feared’: Met Office under fire as it claims Earth’s temperature is rising more slowly than first thought (and could even have stalled) — ‘Global warming is not causing temperatures to rise as quickly as previously feared, the Met Office has claimed. Today the weather agency released its revised forecast which was quickly seized upon by climate change skeptics who used the data to claim global warming has stopped’
BBC: A new global temperature forecast ‘has scaled back projections of the amount of warming they expect’
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Dr. Judith A. Curry said 2012 GLOBAL avg. temps will not set a record — 2012 will probably be 8th warmest. ‘Natural variability continues to dominate the occurrence of extreme weather events’
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Leading German Daily Announces: ‘Global Warming Has Stopped’, Questions IPCC Models It took them 15 years to notice it: CO2 is not driving the climate
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Geraldo Rivera Recounts Gore’s Snotty Disdain After He Went to Fox News: ‘Gore’s Current TV being sold to Al Jazeera…reminded Rivera of Gore’s holier-than-thou attitude the last time they met’
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Al Gore’s Oil-Fueled Al-Jazeera Deal Follows A String Of Green Energy Fiascos
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Forbes: Al Gore Richer Than Mitt Romney After Current TV Sale — Middle Eastern Oil Money Makes Gore richer
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The other big story today: BBC forced to admit global warming ‘static’: ‘Forecast for warming revised downward’
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