The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years.
New confirmation of something that a number of scientist have been saying for the last two years. Calling Science Chic... need you to spin this away.
Today the Mail on Sunday published a story written by David Rose entitled “Forget global warming – it’s Cycle 25 we need to worry about”.
This article includes numerous errors
in the reporting of published peer reviewed science undertaken by the Met Office Hadley Centre and for Mr. Rose to suggest that the latest global temperatures available show no warming in the last 15 years is entirely misleading.
Despite the Met Office having spoken to David Rose ahead of the publication of the story, he has chosen to not fully include the answers we gave him to questions around decadal projections produced by the Met Office or his belief that we have seen no warming since 1997.
For clarity I have included our full response to David Rose below:
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
Science Chic wrote: Someone mis-reporting the data in the press??? You know I trust them implicitly to get it right every time. :faint:
http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2012 ... uary-2012/ Met Office in the Media:
29 January 2012
Today the Mail on Sunday published a story written by David Rose entitled “Forget global warming – it’s Cycle 25 we need to worry about”.
This article includes numerous errors
in the reporting of published peer reviewed science undertaken by the Met Office Hadley Centre and for Mr. Rose to suggest that the latest global temperatures available show no warming in the last 15 years is entirely misleading.
Despite the Met Office having spoken to David Rose ahead of the publication of the story, he has chosen to not fully include the answers we gave him to questions around decadal projections produced by the Met Office or his belief that we have seen no warming since 1997.
For clarity I have included our full response to David Rose below:
Numerous errors...entirely misleading...
You can hear the surprise in *MY* voice... rofllol
(...and cigarettes don't cause cancer, and they aren't habit-forming...)
Here is a graph of 160 years of directly measured surface temperature from the University of East Anglia which I think the original article showed from just 1997 to present.
This image shows the instrumental record of global average temperatures as compiled by the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia and the Hadley Centre of the UK Meteorological Office. Data set HadCRUT3 was used. HadCRUT3 is a record of surface temperatures collected from land and ocean-based stations.
By cutting away all the data prior to 1997 the article made it look like things are cooling down because they are using the all time high in 1997 as their starting point. But if you look at 160 years of data, you can see the years after 1997 are still among the warmest on record.
A similar trick could of been done in the early 1980s. Back then they could of said there's been no warming for 40 years because they'd be using the early 1940s as their starting point, and that was the all time high at that time.
It also depends on what data you look at. There is also satellite data, North American data, land mass data, ocean data, etc.
The NOAA reported 2010 and 2005 were the warmest years on record. I'm not sure how their measurements differ from East Anglia.
