Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee View Post
You know we got a problem when the NY Times is puzzled over GLOBAL WARMING WITHOUT ANY, YOU KNOW, ACTUAL WARMING.

“The slowdown is a bit of a mystery to climate scientists.”

It's a real conundrum...
^ LOL, copy and paste Boontard saw a headline that looked promising but didn't actually read the article.

"the basic theory that predicts a warming of the planet in response to human emissions does not suggest that warming should be smooth and continuous. To the contrary, in a climate system still dominated by natural variability, there is every reason to think the warming will proceed in fits and starts. "

Denialists cherry picking the data as always:

" As you might imagine, those dismissive of climate-change concerns have made much of this warming plateau. They typically argue that “global warming stopped 15 years ago” or some similar statement, and then assert that this disproves the whole notion that greenhouse gases are causing warming.
Rarely do they mention that most of the warmest years in the historical record have occurred recently. Moreover, their claim depends on careful selection of the starting and ending points. The starting point is almost always 1998, a particularly warm year because of a strong El Niño weather pattern.
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"We certainly cannot conclude, as some people want to, that carbon dioxide is not actually a greenhouse gas. More than a century of research thoroughly disproves that claim. "

" the real question is where all that heat is going, if not to warm the surface. And a prime suspect is the deep ocean. Our measurements there are not good enough to confirm it absolutely, but a growing body of research suggests this may be an important part of the answer. "

Boontard is an oil guy, right?

As Upton Sinclair put it: It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.