H/t to the lovely Maggie
April 30 (Bloomberg) — Parts of North America and Europe may cool naturally over the next decade, as shifting ocean currents temporarily blunt the global-warming effect caused by mankind, Germany’s Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences said.
So, let me see: it was Man’s (or Woman’s, too be fair) fault for the current cooling trend, but nature is blunting it? Could nature have had nothing to do with the warming trend, like it has for billions of years?
Average temperatures in areas such as California and France may drop over the next 10 years, influenced by colder flows in the North Atlantic, said a report today by the institution based in Kiel, Germany. Temperatures worldwide may stabilize in the period.
The study was based on sea-surface temperatures of currents that move heat around the world, and vary from decade to decade. This regional cooling effect may temporarily neutralize the long- term warming phenomenon caused by heat-trapping greenhouse gases building up around the earth, said Richard Wood, a research scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre, a U.K. provider of environmental and weather-related services.
“Those natural climate variations could be stronger than the global-warming trend over the next 10-year period,” Wood said in an interview. “Without knowing that, you might erroneously think there’s no global warming going on.’
Do you see what is going on here? There is an actual cooling trend, and rather then acknowledge that the climate could, and I stress could, because it will take time to know, be changing, the climahysterics are pushing the meme that Man is still turning the Earth into a ball of fire, and nature, Mother Earth, Gaia, is fighting all of us evil SUV driving homonids back.
One final excerpt
Carbon dioxide, produced mainly from burning fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas, is the chief pollutant blamed for global warming. Since 1988, CO2 levels in the world’s skies have increased by 9.8 percent, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Scientists debate how much carbon can be pumped into the atmosphere before the effects of climate change, including droughts, floods and reduced fresh water supplies, become irreversible. For every 1 million molecules in the atmosphere, about 384 are carbon dioxide, according to NOAA.
Essentially, we get one more molecule of CO2 every 5 years. And, despite the 9.8% increase, the temperature component of climate has not gone up in 10 years.
