I refuse to debate with the childish fool who writes under the pseudonym ‘Boris’. His boorish rants, insults and slurs warrant derision and not answers. And his cowardice in presenting these personal attacks while hiding behind a pseudonym is clear for all to see…However, I suspect that everybody knows what I think of ‘Boris’ whomever or whatever he/she/it may be.
Pure ad hominem. Does this indicate your reluctance to debate the facts without resorting to name calling? Once you have started slinging mud you can no longer claim the high ground or play the victim.
It would be cherry-picking to assess the periods from 1997 or 1999 because the start of the present cooling period was 1998. The Earth was still warming in 1997, it peaked in 1998 (an El Nino year) and although its temperature plummeted in 2000 (as the El Nino passed) by 2001 it had recovered to almost reach the high of 1998. The Earth has been cooling since.
Choose any year other than 1998 between 1995 and 2001 and a warming trend to the present is evident. Use 3 year or 5 year means from 1998 or earlier and a warming trend is evident. The only way to claim that warming stopped in 1998 is to ignore the steep rise in 1998 followed by the subsequent steep fall to pre 1998 levels then followed by an increasing trend until at least 2007. Graphs that show the trend from 1880 forward (both single year and 5-year means) are available at NASA GISS along with some explanation of the difference in current warming vs the 1998 El Nino.
There are far, far too many untrue assertions concerning AGW such as yours above, and the bulk of the scientific community is starting to object to them.
This is only true if by “the bulk of” you mean a small minority.
Now,32 thousand scientists with scientific degrees including more than 9 thousand with doctorates have signed a petition objecting to calls for actions such as the Kyoto Protocol.
Science is not decided by votes, but the dissent of tens of thousands of scientists should help the general public to recognise that the science is not “settled” and false claims such as recent oceanic cooling should be treated with caution.
You can also go directly to the petition website here. Click on names of as many names as you like, Google them, and see what you come up with. I did this for about 30 haphazardly selected names followed by PhDs and not one of them had a degree even tangentially related to climate science (the closest I found was a mathematician).
