The last denier source used here was a creationist wingnut, I wasn't accusing you of being creationist. Sorry if it looked that way.
Actually, I'm the one who should apologize on this point. I misread your "creationist" post. Sorry about that.
The Nobel for the IPCC reads:
"The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 was awarded jointly to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change"
That's not advocacy, that's education. Quite different.
Laying the foundation for measures to counteract what the IPCC says is occurring is advocacy. Furthermore, the IPCC has published reports where it has specifically called for policy reforms -- that's advocacy.
lol..i know who's willing to play those odds ....
I'll take the bet. Those numbers don't mean anything.
I'll stick with the NASA release rather than the NOAA one because I'm more familiar with its content. But the principles are the exact same.
We'll start with some background:
In the last 150 years, there have been three periods of warming that have led to the slight overall increase in the world's temperature.
Two of those periods occurred at times when the burning of fossil fuels was clearly not the driving factor -- during a 20-year period in the late 19th century, and a similar 20-year period in the early part of the 20th century.
The most recent warming period occurred during the latter part of the 20th century -- roughly from the late 1970s to the late 1990s. That is the only period where there appears to be a correlation between the burning of fossil fuels and the Earth's temperature.
However, since that time, there has been a "flattening" of the Earth's temperature, as NASA says. NASA and the IPCC say the flattening has occurred for about 15 years. The satellite data used by the Met Office in the U.K. and others show it has been for a period of more than 18 years.
Since the peak period in about the late 1990s, there has been a plateau and the Earth's temperature has remained at about the same record height (from when reporting began) from the late 1990s. Not surprisingly, then, most of the years where that same plateau level has been recorded have been post-2000.
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here's the point: Those 10 years cited in the NASA release aren't citing increasing temperatures. It's pretty much the same temperature being measured again and again in different years. As the NASA release says, the long-range trend has actually been "flattening" over the past 15 years.
That's despite the fact there have been huge increases in man-made CO2 emissions, which the computer models predicted would send the Earth's temperature skyrocketing upwards.
The skyrocketing temperatures never materialized. The computer-model predictions have been spectacularly wrong (the University of Hamburg said more than 98 per cent of the models failed to predict the current trends in temperatures).
There is no evidence that man-made CO2 emissions play a significant role in affecting the climate. Certainly, the evidence doesn't support the hypothesis that man-made CO2 emissions are a primary driver of warming.
