Climatologists and climate-change deniers agree on at least one thing this week: everyone is awaiting the landmark U.N. report on climate change that will be presented at next week's meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The report will also include data that indicates the rate of warming from 1998 to 2012 slowed to about half the average rate since 1951, citing natural variability in the climate system, as well as cooling effects from volcanic eruptions and a downward phase in solar activity.
What won't be there is a more thorough explanation for the supposed decline in warming.
The lack of warming data has been around for a while.
POSTED BY BRIAN WANG
The report will also include data that indicates the rate of warming from 1998 to 2012 slowed to about half the average rate since 1951, citing natural variability in the climate system, as well as cooling effects from volcanic eruptions and a downward phase in solar activity.
What won't be there is a more thorough explanation for the supposed decline in warming.
The lack of warming data has been around for a while.
POSTED BY BRIAN WANG
SEPTEMBER 21, 2013
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