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Struggling To Explain Why
Global Warming Has Been Non-Existent Over Last 15 Years
August 21, 2013
An
unreleased draft of the U.N.’s
next major climate report reportedly states that scientists are more
certain
than ever that man’s actions are warming the planet — even as the
report
struggles to explain a slow-down in warming that climate skeptics have
seized
upon.
Global
surface temperatures rose
rapidly during the 70s, but have been relatively flat over the past
decade and
a half, according to data from the U.K.’s weather-watching Met Office.
Climate
skeptics have spent months debating the weather pattern, some citing it
as
evidence that global warming itself has decelerated or even stopped.
“The
absence of any significant
change in the global annual average temperature over the past 16 years
has
become one of the most discussed topics in climate science,” wrote
David
Whitehouse of the Global Warming Policy Foundation in June. “It has
certainly
focused the debate about the relative importance of greenhouse gas
forcing of
the climate versus natural variability.”
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