Warmists have been fearmongering that warming will be speeding up SOON for decades, even during warming pauses
Is climate change speeding up? Here’s what the science says.
For the past several years, a small group of scientists has warned that sometime early this century, the rate of global warming — which has remained largely steady for decades — might accelerate. Temperatures could rise higher, faster. The drumbeat of weather disasters may become more insistent.
And now, after what is poised to be the hottest year in recorded history, the same experts believe that it is already happening.
In a paper published last month, climate scientist James E. Hansen and a group of colleagues argued that the pace of global warming is poised to increase by 50 percent in the coming decades, with an accompanying escalation of impacts.
According to the scientists, an increased amount of heat energy trapped within the planet’s system — known as the planet’s “energy imbalance” — will accelerate warming. “If there’s more energy coming in than going out, you get warmer, and if you double that imbalance, you’re going to get warmer faster,” Hansen said in a phone interview.
It’s always sometime in the future, but, they won’t say exactly when. Just in the future. And, what if it doesn’t happen? Who loses their job?
But not everyone agrees. University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann has argued that no acceleration is visible yet: “The truth is bad enough,” he wrote in a blog post. Many other researchers also remain skeptical, saying that while such an increase may be predicted in some climate simulations, they don’t see it clearly in the data from the planet itself. At least not yet.
Well, good on the WP for mentioning that, because the data doesn’t support it, no matter what the climate cultists attempt to do with their computer models.
The Washington Post used a data set from NASA to to analyze global average surface temperatures from 1880 to 2023.
The record shows that the pace of warming clearly sped up around the year 1970. Scientists have long known that this acceleration stems from a steep increase in greenhouse gas emissions, combined with efforts in many countries to reduce the amount of sun-reflecting pollution in the air. But the data is much more uncertain on whether a second acceleration is underway.
The fallacy is using that data period, which ignores the cold temperatures during the Little Ice Age, and failing to mention that the late 40’s through mid-70’s was a period of slight cooling. And the fudged data they use erases that cooling period along with the long pause. Nor does it note that there have been multiple periods during the Modern Warm Period, starting in 1850, where there was warming, followed by plateaus/pauses. What caused this back when CO2 was under the “safe” level of 350ppm?
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