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Missing Heat’ Find Prompts New Climate Estimates
Wed, 11/13/2013 - 12:00pm
Univ. of York

An interdisciplinary team of researchers say they have found “missing heat” in the climate system, casting doubt on suggestions that global warming has slowed or stopped over the past decade. Observational data on which climate records are based cover only 84 percent of the planet – with Polar regions and parts of Africa largely excluded. Now, Kevin Cowtan, a computational scientist at the Univ. of York, and Robert Way, a cryosphere specialist and PhD student at the Univ. of Ottawa, have reconstructed the “missing” global temperatures using a combination of observations from satellites and surface data from weather stations and ships on the peripheries of the un-sampled regions.


The new research published in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society shows that the Arctic is warming at about eight times the pace of the rest of the planet. Previous studies by the UK Met Office based on the HadCRUT4 dataset, which only covers about five-sixths of the globe, suggest that global warming has slowed substantially since 1997. The new research suggests, however, that the addition of the “missing” data indicates that the rate of warming since 1997 has been two and a half times greater than shown in the Met Office studies. Evidence for the rapid warming of the Arctic includes observations from high latitude weather stations, radiosonde and satellite observations of temperatures in the lower atmosphere and reanalysis of historical data.

Cowtan, whose specialty is crystallography, carried out the research in his spare time. This is his first climate paper. He says, "There's a perception that global warming has stopped but, in fact, our data suggests otherwise. But the reality is that 16 years is too short a period to draw a reliable conclusion. We find only weak evidence of any change in the rate of global warming."

Robert Way adds, "Changes in Arctic sea ice and glaciers over the past decade clearly support the results of our study. By producing a truly global temperature record, we aim to better understand the drivers of recent climate change."

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Originally posted by AURaptor:


I was hoping this would be a thread about Nikki Heat, from Castle.

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
"Truth to tell, I thought the same thing. I heard there was a new Nikki Heat novel coming out soon, and that would be a smashing title."

But instead of a vacuous tidbit about an imaginary book, it turns out it's about a real, planet-destroying crisis that's already in progress. Bummer.

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
"Truth to tell, I thought the same thing. I heard there was a new Nikki Heat novel coming out soon, and that would be a smashing title."

But instead of a vacuous tidbit about an imaginary book, it turns out it's about a real, planet-destroying crisis that's already in progress. Bummer.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
"Truth to tell, I thought the same thing. I heard there was a new Nikki Heat novel coming out soon, and that would be a smashing title."

But instead of a vacuous tidbit about an imaginary book, it turns out it's about a real, planet-destroying crisis that's already in progress. Bummer.

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Destroys planets ?

ROFLMAO !!!!

WOW. How firmly are you sucking on AlGore's private parts ?

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

Resident USA Freedom Fundie

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Is it cause you're some closet conservative's private cum dumpster?

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