Posted by Kromey at 4:43pm Nov 27 '09The headline's misleading, methinks, but nonetheless it's amusing to see a fanatical global warming applaudist (is that the antonym to "denialist"?) treated as a fringe lunatic by the scientific community:
The context here is that global warming's stagnated for the last decade:
This is where the headline becomes misleading - nobody seems to be "baffled" by this fact, they just haven't yet agreed upon the cause, some citing reduced solar output while others cite natural cycles in ocean currents.
"Warming has continued in the last few years," says Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). However, Rahmstorf is more or less alone in his view. Hamburg Max Planck Institute scientist Jochem Marotzke, on the other hand, says: "I hardly know any colleagues who would deny that it hasn't gotten warmer in recent years."
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Climatologist Stefan Rahmstorf is so convinced that his predictions will be correct in the end that he is willing to back up his conviction with a €2,500 ($3,700) bet. "I will win," says Rahmstorf.
His adversary Latif turned down the bet, saying that the matter was too serious for gambling. "We are scientists, not poker players."
The context here is that global warming's stagnated for the last decade:
According to [Britain's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research], the world grew warmer by 0.07 degrees Celsius from 1999 to 2008 and not by the 0.2 degrees Celsius assumed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. And, say the British experts, when their figure is adjusted for two naturally occurring climate phenomena, El Niño and La Niña, the resulting temperature trend is reduced to 0.0 degrees Celsius -- in other words, a standstill.
This is where the headline becomes misleading - nobody seems to be "baffled" by this fact, they just haven't yet agreed upon the cause, some citing reduced solar output while others cite natural cycles in ocean currents.