Global Warming

[Super Nova]

Reliable sources.

Met Office confirm warming was not as predicted but will stand by global warming. So no change there.

Met Office affirms its position on long-term global warming

Post Date: 08 January 2013

The Met Office has been forced to issue a statement clarifying its position on long-term global warming following an item on Radio 4's Today programme this morning.

The item said that the UK's weather forecasting bureau had revised its opinion on average global temperature increases up to 2017, to believe that they will not increase as much as previously thought, and that temperatures had flatlined. The news, derived from a decadal forecast statement, which is updated every year and was published last December on the organisation's website, had previously circulated on anti-anthropogenic global warming websites amongst climate change sceptics as "evidence" that global warming does not exist.

The statement says: "Global average temperature is expected to remain between 0.28 °C and 0.59 °C (90% confidence range) above the long-term (1971-2000) average during the period 2013-2017, with values most likely to be about 0.43 °C higher than average".

It says nothing about long-term temperature rises.

The new position statement, released this morning by the Met Office, clarifies any misconceptions by saying: "The updated decadal forecast is the first to make use of our latest climate model, HadGEM3. The fact that the new model predicts less warming, globally, for the coming five years does not necessarily tell us anything about long-term predictions of climate change for the coming century."

It adds that as science revises its understanding of short-term effects, for example from sun cycles, on longer term trends, predictions are bound to be modified.
http://www.eaem.co.uk/news/met-office-a ... al-warming

[Rorschach]

It's supposed to be raining today and for most of the rest of the week, yet outside there is a blue sky and plenty of sunshine. If Met Bureaus can't get the weather right for the next day, then the next week how can they predict any "long term" changes with any certainty?

[boxy]

[Rorschach]

[IQS.RLOW]

An appeal to idiocy...the mantra of global warmys because that's where they get the best response

[Neferti]

Only problem is that people who PRINT messages in CAPITALS are usually retarded leftards.. Either that or they are just retarded!

I have known a few who can NOT "write" they PRINT in CAPITALS, it doesn't make them less useful, you just do not give them a chore that requires writing skills. Most Tradies PRINT.

[boxy]

Only problem is that people who PRINT messages in CAPITALS are usually retarded leftards.. Either that or they are just retarded!

I have known a few who can NOT "write" they PRINT in CAPITALS, it doesn't make them less useful, you just do not give them a chore that requires writing skills. Most Tradies PRINT.

Très embarrassment?

[Neferti]

certainement pas.

Cartoonists tend to write in capitals so that the dregs can get the message.

[boxy]

Ah, the penny's dropped

[Rorschach]

For some but not all it would seem boxy...