Short-term Cooling on a Warming Planet

[H2FC]

"There IS a problem with global warming,” one headline recently quipped, “it stopped in 1998.” Making the same argument about declining temperatures since 1998, another headline proclaimed, “Alarmists still heated even as world cools.”

These articles suggest that climate scientists have misled the public. While climatologists warn that greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels are warming our planet, some people argue that Earth is actually cooling: they point to declining temperatures since 1998 as “proof” that global warming has stopped.

But this argument about global cooling begs an important question: Why measure temperatures since 1998? Why not 1997 or 1999? .....read more

[jasdon11]

"There IS a problem with global warming,” one headline recently quipped, “it stopped in 1998.” Making the same argument about declining temperatures since 1998, another headline proclaimed, “Alarmists still heated even as world cools.”

These articles suggest that climate scientists have misled the public. While climatologists warn that greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels are warming our planet, some people argue that Earth is actually cooling: they point to declining temperatures since 1998 as “proof” that global warming has stopped.

But this argument about global cooling begs an important question: Why measure temperatures since 1998? Why not 1997 or 1999? .....read more

Didn't you get the memo? Much of the data used for the calculations in recent years is being found to be incorrect as they have been contaminated by local heat sources.