Some eye-opening news on the climate change front from Anthony Watts.
The rate at which Earth’s atmosphere is warming has not significantly accelerated over the past 23 years, according to research at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.If you take away the transient cooling in 1983 and 1992 caused by two major volcanic eruptions in the preceding years, the remaining underlying warming trend in the bottom eight kilometers (almost five miles) of the atmosphere was 0.096 C (about 0.17° Fahrenheit) per decade between January 1979 and June 2017.That was unexpectedly close to the 0.09 C warming trend found when similar research was published in 1994 with only 15 years of data, said Dr. John Christy, director of UAH’s Earth System Science Center.This work might also indirectly affirm recent research showing the atmosphere is less sensitive to the warming effects of rising levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases than global climate models have suggested.
That's a polite way of saying the models predicting rising temps based on the amount of CO2 we release into the atmosphere are hooey. We have released massive amounts of CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere over the time period studied and temps have barely moved.
Mathematically removing the natural but transient climatic effects of volcanoes and El Niño/La Niña Pacific Ocean warming and cooling events leaves an underlying climate trend, all or some part of which might be attributed to human causes — including enhanced greenhouse forcing caused by rising levels of CO2 and other manmade greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.At present, however, there is no accepted tool or technique for confidently estimating how much of the warming in the past 38+ years might be due to natural causes.
The percentage of warming that is due to human industrial activity has always been an issue - even among global warming advocates. It's impossible to tell how much CO2 is in the atmosphere due to humans and how much occurs naturally and what percent of human activity is responsible for how much warming. We have a good idea how much CO2 we release at ground level due to the burning of fossil fuels but some unknown process is occurring once it reaches the upper levels of our atmosphere that prevents any significant warming.
The bottom line is that the UN and global warming hysterics want us to formulate public policy based on predictive models that are not just incorrect but wildly so. It would be irresponsible in the extreme to create policies to address a problem no one knows the extent of or if it even exists.
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