Scientists say pause in global warming since 1998 could be 'a blip,' or climate may be less sensitive to CO2 than anticipated-Reuters

Scientists say slowing of global warming since 1998 in the face of rising CO2 could be "a blip," or "the climate may be less sensitive than expected to a build-up of carbon dioxide."

8/16/13, "Experts surer of manmade global warming but local predictions elusive," Reuters, Alister Doyle

"Warming slowing"

"The panel will try to explain why global temperatures, while still increasing, have risen more slowly since about 1998 even though greenhouse gas concentrations have hit repeated record highs in that time, led by industrial emissions by China and other emerging nations. An IPCC draft says there is "medium confidence" that the slowing of the rise is "due in roughly equal measure" to natural variations in the weather and to other factors affecting energy reaching the Earth's surface.

Scientists believe causes could include: greater-than-expected quantities of ash from volcanoes, which dims sunlight; a decline in heat from the sun during a current 11-year solar cycle; more heat being absorbed by the deep oceans; or the possibility that the climate may be less sensitive than expected to a build-up of carbon dioxide.

"It might be down to minor contributions that all add up," said Gabriele Hegerl, a professor at Edinburgh University. Or maybe, scientists say, the latest decade is just a blip.

The main scenarios in the draft, using more complex computer models than in 2007 and taking account of more factors, show that temperatures could rise anywhere from a fraction of 1 degree Celsius (1.8 Fahrenheit) to almost 5C (9F) this century, a wider range at both ends than in 2007.

The low end, however, is because the IPCC has added what diplomats say is an improbable scenario for radical government action - not considered in 2007 - that would require cuts in global greenhouse gases to zero by about 2070.

Temperatures have already risen by 0.8C (1.4F) since the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. Experts say that the big advance in the report, due for a final edit by governments and scientists in Stockholm from Sept. 23-26, is simply greater confidence about the science of global warming, rather than revolutionary new findings."...via Junk Science

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A BBC discussion suggests a pause in confiscation of taxpayer dollars in the face of dual problems, that temperatures have remained flat since 1998 while CO2 has increased. Money was diverted based on predicted outcomes that didn't happen which "peer reviewed literature regards as established yet unexplained:"

7/22/13, "Andrew Neil on Ed Davey climate change interview critics," BBC, Andrew Neil

Multi-billion dollar "spending decisions, paid for by consumers and taxpayers...might not have been taken (at least to the same degree or with the same haste) if global warming was not quite the imminent threat it has been depicted....The recent standstill in global temperatures is a puzzle. Experts do not know why it is occurring or how long it will last....There is no consensus. Extensive peer-reviewed literature regards it as established yet unexplained. It is widely accepted that the main climate models which inform government policy did not predict it."...(subhead, "Reputable evidence")

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Comment: Taxpayer trillions have been diverted for an imaginary problem in the midst of a permanent economic depression. The climate terror industry was brilliantly conceived by Goldman Sachs and many others. The rich have gotten richer from it and the poor poorer:

7/02/09, "The Great American Bubble Machine: How Goldman Sachs has Engineered Every Major Market Manipulation Since the Great Depression," Rolling Stone, by Matt Taibbi

"A groundbreaking new commodities bubble,
  
disguised as an "environmental plan"

called cap-and-trade. 
  
The new carbon-credit market is a virtual repeat of the commodities-market casino that's been kind to Goldman, 

except it has one delicious new wrinkle:  

If the plan goes forward as expected, the rise in prices

will be government-mandated.  

Goldman won't even have to rig the game.  

It will be rigged in advance."...

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7/28/10, "The secrets 10 states and Wall Street don't want you to know," by Mark Lagerkvist, NJ Watchdog

"Under the RGGI scheme, the smell of profiteering is powerful. New Jersey and nine other Northeast states have sold

$662 million in carbon dioxide permits since 2008.

The bidders at RGGI auctions include Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan Chase and other Wall Street heavyweights....

 

image above from NJ Watchdog

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Third world countries emit more CO2 from fossil fuel through 2012 than industrial nations, rendering the entire UN IPCC process a waste. They're never going to tell poor countries to commit mass suicide:

"Although emissions from developing countries now dominate, the industrial countries set the world on its global warming path."...(scroll down to 3rd graph, this text 2 parags. below)
 
7/23/13, "Fossil Fuel Use Pushes Carbon Dioxide Emissions into Dangerous Territory," Earth Policy Institute, Emily E. Adams




















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Comment: Goal posts keep moving. Even if industrial countries flagellate themselves to near extinction, also known as genocide, they'll still be bad because they "set the world on its global warming path."




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