If you believe global warming has stopped, when did it stop? I%26#039;ve seen arguments that global warming stopped in 1998, 2001, 2003, and most recently, 2005.

So if you believe that global warming has stopped, when do you believe it stopped, and on what do you base that conclusion? And do you believe that 3/5/7/10 years of temperature data (assuming you%26#039;re even looking at data) is sufficient to prove that global warming has stopped?


The peak in solar cycle 23 was 2003, solar activity is predicted to decline from that point to at least three more solar cycles. Plus the switch in the PDO, which is also a forcing.

The facts are in the last ten years according to your favorite data the trends indicate that temperatures are flat, if not decreasing slightly.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs...

The 10 years prior to that (1988 - 1998) globally average temperatures increased by 0.3 - 0.4 degrees with a huge volcanic cooling event that occured from between 1991 and 1994, which cooled globally averaged temperatures by as much as 0.5 degrees C.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs...

If you look at the ten years prior to that you have the complications of one of the largest El-Nino%26#039;s of the 20th century masked by the El-Chichon volcanic eruption of 1983. So as far as proof goes you can%26#039;t prove anything:

%26gt; The last ten years major El-Nino and La-Nina.

%26gt; The Ten Years Prior Pinatubo

%26gt; Ten Years Prior to that El-Chichon and Major El-Nino

Page 9 (d) shows an attempt at removing some of these signals from the satellite data.

https://www.llnl.gov/str/JulAug02/pdfs/0... http://geography.about.com/od/globalprob...
https://www.llnl.gov/str/JulAug02/pdfs/0...

lets not use the term global warming, even the IPCC dont use that term any more as they acknowledge that temperatures can go up and down now given current data. Whether man made co2 contributes to this is still only a theory and unproved, but thats because realistically it is impossible to prove, its been on average warming before man was churning lots of co2, so how can you tell wether its still the natural warming from the little ice age towards the 3000 mean or not?

Theories aside, the fact is that the climate has cooled and warmed constantly over millions of years without any human input and will continue to do so with or without us. What we dont know is what it will do next as we have a poor understanding of the earths systems.

Dont rely on models, if the theory is wrong in the first place they mean nothing, and they are full of assumptions and fudge factors called %26quot;feedback%26quot; to try and cause some co2 driven warming. If the models where accurate they would have seen the last 10 years levelling off and cooling and the sea starting to lower coming wouldnt they- all this proves is the models are wrong, not neccisariliy the theory.

In 1975 all the so called experts where predicting an iceage and what happened to that?

You cant critisice 10 years of data as being short (though it is), the IPCC base their theory on 25 years (also to short) of warming (its the only period of warming since world war 2 when co2 dramatically increased).

So to sum up, the climate will continue to change, and at some point it will not doubt warm up again

Until the world%26#039;s surface monitoring stations are repaired and relocated away from urban heat islands, I am compelled to believe that there is no basis for AGW.

The stations are providing false data...... Period!

Garbage in.......... Garbage Out.

Global warming stops in relationship to Al Gore%26#039;s speeches. They shortly after he is don talking the hot air clears.

it has not stop

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  it has not stopped, the possible chance of global warming getting too bad in 50 years for humans to live on EARTH if we continue driving and not caring, is not global warming stopped. CARE ABOUT THE ENVIORMENT AND STOP GLOBAL WARMING, IT UP TO EVERYONE OF US! i have felt the effects of global warming getting worse every year. and the argument is rubbish. also it doesnt matter if global warming has stopped or not, we still have to respect the earth and be responible to make sure we dont start global warming or make it worse.