Monday, July 28, 2014

Updated list of 63 excuses for the 18-26 year 'pause' in global warming

"If you can't explain the 'pause', you can't explain the cause"

RSS satellite data showing the 18 year 'pause' of global warming

An updated list of at least 29 32 36 38 39 41 51 52 63 excuses for the 18-26 year statistically significant 'pause' in global warming, including recent scientific papers, media quotes, blogs, and related debunkings: 

1) Low solar activity

2) Oceans ate the global warming [debunked] [debunked] [debunked]

3) Chinese coal use [debunked]

4) Montreal Protocol

5) What ‘pause’? [debunked] [debunked] [debunked] [debunked]

6) Volcanic aerosols [debunked]

7) Stratospheric Water Vapor

8) Faster Pacific trade winds [debunked]

9) Stadium Waves

10) ‘Coincidence!’

11) Pine aerosols

12) It's "not so unusual" and "no more than natural variability"

13) "Scientists looking at the wrong 'lousy' data" http://

14) Cold nights getting colder in Northern Hemisphere

15) We forgot to cherry-pick models in tune with natural variability [debunked]

16) Negative phase of Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation

17) AMOC ocean oscillation

18) "Global brightening" has stopped

19) "Ahistorical media"

20) "It's the hottest decade ever" Decadal averages used to hide the 'pause' [debunked]

21) Few El Ninos since 1999

22) Temperature variations fall "roughly in the middle of the AR4 model results"

23) "Not scientifically relevant"

24) The wrong type of El Ninos

25) Slower trade winds [debunked]

26) The climate is less sensitive to CO2 than previously thought [see also]

27) PDO and AMO natural cycles and here

28) ENSO





35) Scientists forgot "to look at our models and observations and ask questions"

36) The models really do explain the "pause" [debunked] [debunked] [debunked]


37) As soon as the sun, the weather and volcanoes – all natural factors – allow, the world will start warming again. Who knew?

38) Trenberth's "missing heat" is hiding in the Atlantic, not Pacific as Trenberth claimed

[debunked] [Dr. Curry's take] [Author: “Every week there’s a new explanation of the hiatus”]

39) "Slowdown" due to "a delayed rebound effect from 1991 Mount Pinatubo aerosols and deep prolonged solar minimum"

[Before this new paper, anthropogenic aerosols were thought to cool the climate or to have minimal effects on climate, but as of now, they "surprisingly warm" the climate] 

42) Trenberth's 'missing heat' really is missing and is not "supported by the data itself" in the "real ocean":


"it is not clear to me, actually, that an accelerated warming of some...layer of the ocean ... is robustly supported by the data itself. Until we clear up whether there has been some kind of accelerated warming at depth in the real ocean, I think these results serve as interesting hypotheses about why the rate of surface warming has slowed-down, but we still lack a definitive answer on this topic." [Josh Willis]

43) Ocean Variability:

"After some intense work by of the community, there is general agreement that the main driver [of climate the "pause"] is ocean variability. That's actually quite impressive progress."

44) The data showing the missing heat going into the oceans is robust and not robust:

" I think the findings that the heat is going into the Atlantic and Southern Ocean’s is probably pretty robust. However, I will defer to people like Josh Willis who know the data better than I do."-Andrew Dessler. Debunked by Josh Willis, who Dessler says "knows the data better than I do," says in the very same NYT article that "it is not clear to me, actually, that an accelerated warming of some...layer of the ocean ... is robustly supported by the data itself" - Josh Willis

45) We don't have a theory that fits all of the data:

"Ultimately, the challenge is to come up with the parsimonious theory [of the 'pause'] that fits all of the data" [Andrew Dessler]

46) We don't have enough data of natural climate cycles lasting 60-70 years to determine if the "pause" is due to such natural cycles:

"If the cycle has a period of 60-70 years, that means we have one or two cycles of observations. And I don’t think you can much about a cycle with just 1-2 cycles: e.g., what the actual period of the variability is, how regular it is, etc. You really need dozens of cycles to determine what the actual underlying variability looks like. In fact, I don’t think we even know if it IS a cycle." [Andrew Dessler]

47) Could be pure internal [natural] variability or increased CO2 or both

"this brings up what to me is the real question: how much of the hiatus is pure internal variability and how much is a forced response (from loading the atmosphere with carbon). This paper seems to implicitly take the position that it’s purely internal variability, which I’m not sure is true and might lead to a very different interpretation of the data and estimate of the future." [Andrew Dessler]

48) Its either in the Atlantic or Pacific, but definitely not a statistical fluke:



It's the Atlantic, not Pacific, and "the hiatus in the warming...should not be dismissed as a statistical fluke" [John Michael Wallace]

49) The other papers with excuses for the "pause" are not "science done right":

" If the science is done right, the calculated uncertainty takes account of this background variation. But none of these papers, Tung, or Trenberth, does that. Overlain on top of this natural behavior is the small, and often shaky, observing systems, both atmosphere and ocean where the shifting places and times and technologies must also produce a change even if none actually occurred. The “hiatus” is likely real, but so what? The fuss is mainly about normal behavior of the climate system." [Carl Wunsch]

50) The observational data we have is inadequate, but we ignore uncertainty to publish anyway:

"The central problem of climate science is to ask what you do and say when your data are, by almost any standard, inadequate? If I spend three years analyzing my data, and the only defensible inference is that “the data are inadequate to answer the question,” how do you publish? How do you get your grant renewed? A common answer is to distort the calculation of the uncertainty, or ignore it all together, and proclaim an exciting story that the New York Times will pick up...How many such stories have been withdrawn years later when enough adequate data became available?"

51) If our models could time-travel back in time, “we could have forecast ‘the pause’ – if we had the tools of the future back then” [NCAR press release]








Additional related comments from climate scientists about the "pause"

1) My University screwed up the press release & didn't let me stop them from claiming my paper shows the "hiatus will last another decade or two." [Dessler]

2) "This [the 'pause'] is not an existential threat to the mainstream theory of climate." [Andrew Dessler]

3) "In a few years, as we get to understand this [the 'pause'] more, skeptics will move on (just like they dropped arguments about the hockey stick and about the surface station record) to their next reason not to believe climate science." [Andrew Dessler]


4)  "if you try really hard to mangle the data, and cherry pick very skillfully, you can make a case" for the "pause"

5) Michael Asten from Monash University’s School of Earth ­Atmosphere and Environment said that, while opinions on causes differed, the existence of the pause was settled. “Only activists dare claim the pause in global temperature does not exist,” Professor Asten said

and a roundup of climate scientists talking about no warming, from Jimbo at WUWT, and via Andrew Bolt's Herald Sun blog

Jimbo on Watts Up With That rounds up the climate scientists confessing to this lack of warming:

Dr. Phil Jones – CRU emails – 5th July, 2005

“The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998. OK it has but it is only 7 years of data and it isn’t statistically significant….”

Dr. Phil Jones – CRU emails – 7th May, 2009

‘Bottom line: the ‘no upward trend’ has to continue for a total of 15 years before we get worried.’

Dr. Judith L. Lean – Geophysical Research Letters – 15 Aug 2009
“…This lack of overall warming is analogous to the period from 2002 to 2008 when decreasing solar irradiance also countered much of the anthropogenic warming…”

Dr. Kevin Trenberth – CRU emails – 12 Oct. 2009


“Well, I have my own article on where the heck is global warming…..The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.”

Dr. Mojib Latif – Spiegel – 19th November 2009

“At present, however, the warming is taking a break,"……."There can be no argument about that.”

Dr. Jochem Marotzke – Spiegel – 19th November 2009

“It cannot be denied that this is one of the hottest issues in the scientific community.... We don’t really know why this stagnation is taking place at this point.”

Dr. Phil Jones – BBC – 13th February 2010


“I’m a scientist trying to measure temperature. If I registered that the climate has been cooling I’d say so. But it hasn’t until recently – and then barely at all. The trend is a warming trend.”

Dr. Phil Jones – BBC – 13th February 2010

[Q] B – “Do you agree that from 1995 to the present there has been no statistically-significant global warming”

[A] “Yes, but only just”.

Prof. Shaowu Wang et al – Advances in Climate Change Research – 2010


“…The decade of 1999-2008 is still the warmest of the last 30 years, though the global temperature increment is near zero;…”

Dr. Robert K. Kaufmann – PNAS – 2nd June 2011

“…..it has been unclear why global surface temperatures did not rise between 1998 and 2008…..”

Dr. Gerald A. Meehl – Nature Climate Change – 18th September 2011

“There have been decades, such as 2000–2009, when the observed globally averaged surface-temperature time series shows little increase or even a slightly negative trend1 (a hiatus period)….”

Met Office Blog – Dave Britton (10:48:21) – 14 October 2012


“We agree with Mr Rose that there has been only a very small amount of warming in the 21st Century. As stated in our response, this is 0.05 degrees Celsius since 1997 equivalent to 0.03 degrees Celsius per decade.”

Dr. James Hansen – NASA GISS – 15 January 2013

“The 5-year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slowdown in the growth rate of the net climate forcing.”

Dr. Virginie Guemas – Nature Climate Change – 7 April 2013

“…Despite a sustained production of anthropogenic greenhouse gases, the Earth’s mean near-surface temperature paused its rise during the 2000–2010 period…”

Dr. Hans von Storch – Spiegel – 20 June 2013

“…the increase over the last 15 years was just 0.06 degrees Celsius (0.11 degrees Fahrenheit) — a value very close to zero….If things continue as they have been, in five years, at the latest, we will need to acknowledge that something is fundamentally wrong with our climate models….”

Professor Masahiro Watanabe – Geophysical Research Letters – 28 June 2013

“The weakening of k commonly found in GCMs seems to be an inevitable response of the climate system to global warming, suggesting the recovery from hiatus in coming decades.”

Professor Rowan Sutton – Independent – 22 July 2013

“Some people call it a slow-down, some call it a hiatus, some people call it a pause. The global average surface temperature has not increased substantially over the last 10 to 15 years.”

And, no, they never saw this coming:



UPDATE: Oh, did they forget to mention the planet wouldn’t actually warm for a while? Their bad: 

Scientists have long been aware that climate change would not happen at a fixed rate and could include periods where temperatures remain stable for 10 to 20 years, but admitted they had failed to explain this to the public in the past.
Prof Rowan Sutton, Director of Climate Research at the University of Reading, said: “Within the field we have taken for granted that there will be variations in the rate of warming, it is totally accepted and is no surprise ...[it] would correct to say that wasn’t the message that we communicated more widely and that probably is a failing.”
UPDATE: C3 has updated the Wayne's World list of excuses for the "pause":



Related:

Climate Depot Analysis: ‘There have been at least 10 separate explanations for the standstill in global warming’ – 1) Low Solar Activity; 2) Oceans Ate Warming; 3) Chinese Coal Use; 4) Montreal Protocol; 5) Readjusted past temps to claim ‘pause’ never existed 6) Volcanoes 7) Decline in Water Vapor 8) Pacific trade winds 9) ‘Coincidence’ 10) ‘Stadium Waves’

‘Warming Interrruptus’ – Causes for The Pause


Quotable Global Warming Hiatus Quotes

34 comments:

  1. 29 reasons vs.18 years? I would say the warmers have it!

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    1. Not a logical conclusion. You need to re-think your comment.

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    2. Obviously "BallBounces" is a reference to that useless thing bouncing around in your head

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    3. Please tell me that you're being sarcastic, right?

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    4. I would say the warmers have "had it" (jammed up their posteriers)

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  2. Any reason can be turned around to explain the warming from the 80's and 90s. It is quite a catch 22 for the warmists.

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  3. Let us not forget that the term " Climate Change" was thought up by the Climate alarmists because
    "Global Warming" wasn't considered alarming enough! Why did we adopt their term? The alarmist's basic premise is that man-made CO2 causes the most significant amount of global warming and that in turn causes all of the hundreds of catastrophes that they allege follow. So since they believe CO2 is the FIRST CAUSE of global warming and all the other catastrophes are secondary and tertiary effects we should concentrate on disproving that man-made CO2 is the cause of it all. We skeptics should drop "Climate Change" from our lexicon and go back to calling it "Global Warming" because as the so-called "pause" continues to lengthen and CO2 continues to increase it will be easier to convince the public that CO2 is not the problem. As we skeptics already know, extreme weather events will never let up and we will never be able to prove anything to the public based on these extreme events.

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  4. The global warming agenda was perpetrated by the global banking elite for the purpose of introducing carbon tax credits. The GW theory IS the conspiracy theory and is nothing more than another tax grab as we move rapidly towards the New World Order. We defend the truth and help protect the sheeples from the NWO. Woof woof.

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  5. Scientist admits the 'pause' is finally "really forcing us to look at our models and observations and ask questions" http://fw.to/utvvDqT

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    1. They are not fit to call themselves scientists if they were not already constantly questioning their models.

      Modelling a hypothesis, is no way to test that hypothesis. All you get is a simulation of the hypothesis, not a test of it.

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  6. I've heard that as CO2 increases, there should be a diminishing marginal return as regard to the greenhouse effect. How theoretically is this meant to square with the notion of accelerating warming as per the models? I understand the notion of positive feedbacks, but why aren't the feedbacks themselves proportional to the direct warming effect of CO2?

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    1. It doesn't square, but you can program a model to say anything you like. The net feedbacks are negative anyway, including the primary greenhouse gas water vapor, which all models falsely assume to be a positive feedback. Same with clouds. The models are little more than expensive computer games.

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  7. I would rather have global warming than global cooling.

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  8. Global cooling = shorter growing season, more energy needed to stay warm in winters etc.

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  9. Watch the global warming hoax on YouTube. Many of the scientists on the video worked for the IPCC and quit in disgust when they saw how the data was manipulated. It's very informative and they're REAL scientists

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  10. Keep your woolies to hand:

    http://iceagenow.info/2012/02/ice-age-2014/

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  11. We have #31, which is that warming occurs in fits and starts: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119033/conservatives-misrepresent-climate-scientist

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    1. Those "fits and starts" have been happening in exactly the same way since well before CO2 emissions began to rise:

      http://jonova.s3.amazonaws.com/graphs/hadley/Hadley-global-temps-1850-2010-web.jpg

      The planet is warming naturally from the Little Ice Age — one of the coldest episodes of the entire Holocene. Human activity has nothing measurable to do with it. No human "fingerprint of global warming" has ever been found.

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  12. http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/47968/1/Cur_Sci_105-8_1031_2013.pdf

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  13. Climate Science Wrong For 120 Years Climate Science Predicted in 1895 A New Ice Age, by 1902 The Glaciers Were Melting And by 1912 The Ice Age Was Back.
    It would appear that climate science is cyclic much like the weather and ultimately the climate, it struggles to predict with any degree of accuracy or precision.

    http://toryaardvark.com/2014/07/30/climate-science-wrong-for-120-years/

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  14. ‘Why Global Warming Is Taking a Break’ – worst excuse yet?

    http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/why-global-warming-is-taking-a-break-worst-excuse-yet/

    This is worth a look just for the last paragraph, which undermines most of the rest of it. Under the optimistic sub-heading ‘Warming to recommence’ we find:
    ‘Despite the warming hiatus, Knutti is convinced there is no reason to doubt either the existing calculations for the climate activity of greenhouse gases or the latest climate models.’

    “Short-term climate fluctuations can easily be explained. They do not alter the fact that the climate will become considerably warmer in the long term as a result of greenhouse gas emissions,” says Knutti.

    ‘He believes that global warming will recommence as soon as solar activity, aerosol concentrations in the atmosphere and weather phenomena such as El Niño naturally start returning to the values of previous decades.’ [bold added]

    Translation: as soon as the sun, the weather and volcanoes – all natural factors – allow, the world will start warming again. Who knew?

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  15. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/08/19/excuse-31-for-the-pause-el-nino-and-longer-solar-cycles/

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  16. I love global warming! I also am running short of patience on this delay! I purchased land 4 mile inland... in anticipation of oceanfront property!
    Please send suggestions for creating more CLIMATE CHANGE.

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  17. God joined a union and is on a go slow

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  18. #40- Explantion: Missing heat is neither in the Pacific nor Atlantic, but in the Sea of Tranquility......

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  19. The trivial truth about the "pause" is that it is not a "pause", that is, an inflection point, at all. It is a maximum instead. Temperatures fall on both sides of the maximum: the warming period in the late 20th century, caused by the unprecedented solar activity, the highest in 9000 years according to some measurements, led to the recent maximum, to be followed by cooling, visible in this year's weather already, due to the solar activity abating.

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  20. I was jolted from my bed from a 6.0 earthquake. I am sure Global Warming is to blame.

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    1. That earthquake must be where all the missing heat energy went.

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  21. What do all the excuses have in common? They are not properly accounted for in the climate models. If the excuses are correct, the models are wrong.

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    1. precisely, yet the scientists are using excuses which prove their models wrong in order to try to save the credibility of their models. That is how desperate they have become. Why is anyone taking any of them seriously anymore?

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  22. When I was still teaching in college, I used to present my class with some incorrect information, such as statistics showing that far more women than men contracted HIV. I would then invite them to explain why this might be so. After about half an hour of some remarkably clever "explanations" I would then reveal my duplicity. The lesson was two-fold. First of all, don't accept statistics or similar information just because someone in authority gives it to you. And secondly, recognize how easy it is to come up with justifications for bad data.

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    1. Clearly then, Frank, you are to blame. Obviously a whole bunch of climate bandwagon hoppers were in your class.
      Do you feel guilty?

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  23. The "pause" is old enough to vote, join army, & pay taxes. We were never told it was coming, but 30+ explanations now

    http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=c920274f2a364603849bbb505&id=871dc43f36&e=8e4649bded

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