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Less atmospheric warming is all we know for sure. The reason for that could be a combination of human and natural factors....Cooling influences....The recent solar minimum, the recent El Ninas, sulphate emissions from China.
Most of the short term influences, with the exception of greenhouse gas emissions and probably volcanoes (but see Neely et al 2013), have had a cooling influence. As a result it is unsurprising that we have seen a reduced rate of warming over the past 16 years. The fact that there has been any warming at all is strongly supportive of the warming effect of greenhouse gas emissions.
Wow. I'm impressed. You actually finally admit that there are other influences on climate than merely CO2 I am flabbergasted, since you have DENIED such time and time again.
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Originally Posted by sanspeur
As long as the sea levels keep rising that indicates to me that the earth continues to warm.
Not the melting of glaciers that grew during the Little Ice Age, and are melting as a result of the LIA?
One again, the AGW crowd continues to look at the last 150 years and treat that as something unusual. No context.
The AGW lie continues to be built upon a foundation of sand.
There are way too many folks posting on this thread that have not read the report....The report DOES NOT say that sea level is higher 6,000 years ago than it is now....What it says is that the RATE of sea level rise is higher than it has been for 6,000 years.
As though there was not enough evidence of global warming, the National Academy of Sciences came out with a study that sea levels are the highest in 6,000 years and that the rise began about 150 years ago when humanity started pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Really, how much evidence does one need to accept global warming as a fact that it is. The following article is from USA Today. I have put in bold the more salient points of the article.
William the Conqueror began building, what is now known as the Tower of London, in 1078. The Tower is situated on the north bank of the river Thames, within the tidal section at the eastern extremity of London. There were no flood-control locks at this time, the first being built in 1633. The Tower was constructed a few feet above the high tide mark and still sits a few feet above the high tide mark. Many tapestries and paintings of the Tower shortly after its completion show that the sea level has not changed!
As though there was not enough evidence of global warming, the National Academy of Sciences came out with a study that sea levels are the highest in 6,000 years and that the rise began about 150 years ago when humanity started pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Really, how much evidence does one need to accept global warming as a fact that it is. The following article is from USA Today. I have put in bold the more salient points of the article.
As long as the sea levels keep rising that indicates to me that the earth continues to warm.
But they have been rising since the end of the last ice age, this is nothing new. As far as the a rate goes you can certainly see different rates looking the graph from The Battery.
Linear mean sea level trends were calculated in overlapping 50-year increments for stations with sufficient historical data. The variability of each 50-year trend, with 95% confidence interval, is plotted against the mid-year of each 50-year period. The solid horizontal line represents the linear mean sea level trend using the entire period of record.
Other than the Al Gore comment, you do raise a good point as to when CO2 emissions would have started to have an effect on the climate. Of course, it is not me making the assertion but the National Academy of Sciences.
"Sea levels have been rising at a rate of 18cm per century, but this rise began long before the present-day accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere. Significantly, there appears to be a deceleration since 1960 – just when CO2 models predict acceleration."
But none of you understand, they like the climate exactly how it was in 1880 and feel the earth should just cooperate and never change.
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