Veteran journalist Ulli Kulke at German national daily Die Welt has a commentary at his Die Welt blog about the upcoming IPCC report. IPCC: Discuss or Ignore Warming Stop. He starts:
According to News Service Bloomberg it is currently being discussed whether to mention the ongoing 15-year pause in global in the 5th Assessment Report“ (AR 5) to be released in late September, or if perhaps it would be better to simply ignore it in order not to unnecessarily supply so-called ‘climate skeptics’ with ammunition.”
Alarmist scientists find themselves in a dilemma and aren’t sure what to do. They are eager to argue back against skeptics’s claims that the warming has stopped, yet are petrified of bringing it up. Some are saying it is simply best to ignore the pause in warming. But Kulke writes:
The attempt to keep the warming pause out of the ongoing discussion surrounding the upcoming AR 5 would be ridiculous. Semantic and formal splitting of hairs would not stick because it cannot be denied that also the In-group of the IPCC scientists have acknowledged the stop in warming – at least internally – and view this as the biggest problem. It is “a travesty” they cannot explain. That quote comes from Kevin Trenberth, a lead author of the 2001 and 2007 IPCC reports. […] In the meantime Trenberth suspects, according to his models, that the missing heat is somewhere in the depths of the oceans. But this is not certain in any way; perhaps it just doesn’t exist.”
Scientists in a jam
Kulke then adds that the IPCC also will not be able to downgrade the warming pause to a mere weather event and claim that it has nothing to do with overall climate:
Just because it is still in the range of weather and has not yet reached the time span that one uses to discuss climate, ignoring the warming stop would also be outrageous because it would mean you couldn’t mention any weather event that is not at least 30 years long.”
If increasing frequency is the test that alarmists like to use, then it’s tough to get more frequent than every year over the last 15. You can’t claim a team is in a slump-trend after it has just won 15 games in a row.
For the alarmist IPCC scientists, it’s a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t situation. Bringing up the warming stop surely will be ammo for the skeptics, but so would ignoring it. Should we feel sorry for them? I don’t think so. It was they themselves who maneuvered their own jewels between the jaws of the vise. Last chance to pull them out!
Photo credits, Ulli Kulke: www.achgut.com/. Vise: www.ridgid.com.
Just wait until the pause in global warming becomes a warming plateau.
It’ll be interesting to see how the journey down again will be explained??
I doubt that the IPCC-scientists hestitates because they do not want to give fodder to sceptics. This is only what Bob Ward, policy director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, says.
No, the problem is that they dissagree among themselves concerning the explanation – they are uncertain. – Can’t show that to the politicians, can we 🙂
So much for “97% of the scientists” being “95% sure”.
The leaked statement about being “95% sure” must be a joke. If 98% of their models fail (se Hans von Storch et al paper) to reproduce the so called hiatus in global warming, and the explanation is to be found in natural mechanisms, then they have to reconsider the model-generated “proof” of the warming during late 1900.
See Nir Shavivs perfect formulation of the dilemma:
http://www.sciencebits.com/IPCC_nowarming
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On topic only insofar as this is also Die Welt:
Broder, Demands war against Syria, even when evidence for nerve gas deployment by Assad is inconclusive.
http://www.welt.de/debatte/henryk-m-broder/article119578639/Wer-schuetzt-uns-vor-den-Syrien-Experten.html
Another very low note from Die Welt -not because of his conclusions but because of the way he arrives there; which is EXACTLY the way the warmist argument goes – “even when the evidence is unconclusive, do as we say!”.
Maybe Broder is insane; maybe Die Welt is bought and paid for; maybe they just like war; at least; not a paper I would put any trust in.
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