"Setting the record straight" is the common theme of three articles posted on SkS during the past week. The three are:
The findings contained in Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming hiatu,Thomas R Karl et al, Science are summarized and explained in two of the articles — John Abraham's and Dana's. In his article, Mark R details the findings contained in Misdiagnosis of Earth climate sensitivity based on energy balance model results, Mark Richardson et al, Science Bulletin
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"We can try to put a nice face on it. We can try to soften it, but the reality is that there is no statistically significant hiatus, and there never has been," says Harvard science historian Naomi Oreskes.
Science challenges claim that global warming took a hiatus by Marianne Lavelle, National Geographic, June 4. 2015
"Adding in the last two years of global surface temperature data and other improvements in the quality of the observed record provide evidence that contradict the notion of a hiatus in recent global warming trends," said Thomas R. Karl, L.H.D., Director, NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. "Our new analysis suggests that the apparent hiatus may have been largely the result of limitations in past datasets, and that the rate of warming over the first 15 years of this century has, in fact, been as fast or faster than that seen over the last half of the 20th century."
Science publishes new NOAA analysis: Data show no recent slowdown in global warming, NOAA News Release, June 4, 2015
NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) is the merger of the National Climatic Data Center, National Geophysical Data Center, and National Oceanographic Data Center as approved in the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, Public Law 113-235. From the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun and from million-year-old sediment records to near real-time satellite images, NCEI is the nation's leading authority for environmental information and data. For more information go to: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/news/coming-soon-national-centers-environmental-information
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Posted by John Hartz on Sunday, 7 June, 2015
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