November was the warmest on record, according to NASA. Heres Joe Romm at ThinkProgress debunking the myth of the global warming pause: Of course, the global surface temperature is only one of many indicators the planet just keeps warming... Now two new studies demolish the myth that warming — including surface warming — has not continued apace. Stefan Rahmstorf, Co-Chair of Earth System Analysis at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, discusses the first paper at RealClimate: A new study by British and Canadian researchers shows that the global temperature rise of the past 15 years has been greatly underestimated. The reason is the data gaps in the weather station network, especially in the Arctic. If you fill these data gaps using satellite measurements, the warming trend is more than doubled in the widely used HadCRUT4 data, and the much-discussed warming pause has virtually disappeared. -Erika
Posted on: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 20:53:44 +0000
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