BOMBSHELL: Study shows greenhouse gas induced warming dropped for the past 14 years

[firstfloor]

It really isn't all that mysterious and complex in terms of actual science.
What is so complex is computer modeling designed to fabricate an outcome to satisfy a desired political consensus.
See here.

You’re doing your conspiracy thing again.

This gives you an idea of the scale of the effort and the difficulty of extracting a coherent message from that effort. There is no one right scientist in a project of this size.

From this site:
https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/questio...6045526AAwf7X1

“In recent years 18,000 people have qualified as climatologists. It would be reasonable to assume that this constitutes no more than half the total number of climatologists, on that basis the number will be upwards of 36,000. There is no international register of climatologists so it's very hard to provide a specific number.

If you widen the definition of 'climate-scientists' to include related disciplines such as meteorologists and paleoclimatologists then the numbers will run into the hundreds of thousands.

Widen the definition further to include astrophysicists, atmospheric chemists, glaciologists and the like and you could probably add another 50,000.

If you were to extend the definition to include all overlapping disciplines such as sedimentologists, hydrologists and dendrochronologists then it's probable that the number of 'climate scientists' would be in the order of a million.”

[robrecht]

That's a lot of carbon dioxide!

[John Reece]

That's a lot of carbon dioxide!

:chuckle:

[Jedidiah]

What is so complex is computer modeling designed to fabricate an outcome to satisfy a desired political consensus.

"New Amen Button"

[firstfloor]

"New Amen Button"

Another conspiracist!

[tabibito]

This gives you an idea of the scale of the effort and the difficulty of extracting a coherent message from that effort.

They didn't get it right - projections didn't match reality.
They didn't get it right - they claimed that they knew what was happening.

Conspiracy Theory? They got it wrong and refused to admit it.
That did nothing more than undermine their own credibility.

And the worst part of all that is - the measurable data regarding actual rising sea levels and real ice volume reduction points to the idea that global warming is now changed from raising global temperatures to melting the ice.

And continuing to argue about the degree of human contribution doesn't help people in areas that stand to be swamped.

[firstfloor]

They didn't get it right - projections didn't match reality.
They didn't get it right - they claimed that they knew what was happening.

Conspiracy Theory? They got it wrong and refused to admit it.
That did nothing more than undermine their own credibility.

And the worst part of all that is - the measurable data regarding actual rising sea levels and real ice volume reduction points to the idea that global warming is now changed from raising global temperatures to melting the ice.

And continuing to argue about the degree of human contribution doesn't help people in areas that stand to be swamped.

Here is a related interesting discussion about growth of global oil consumption, finite resource and impending geometrical cost increase. This problem is on top of the anticipated climate change just to make our grandchildren’s lives even more miserable. At 48 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JA-...ukTekgSRZrjadw

[sylas]

And the worst part of all that is - the measurable data regarding actual rising sea levels and real ice volume reduction points to the idea that global warming is now changed from raising global temperatures to melting the ice.

Say what?!? I'd love a reference for this claim, please. I can't even make sense of what you are claiming here.

Rising sea levels are driven by two major effects: melting land ice, and thermal expansion of water; and both of these are driven by heating up of the planet -- global warming.

Cheers -- sylas