MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
A recent pause in Antarctic Peninsula warming
The rapid warming of the Antarctic Peninsula, which occurred from the early-1950s to the late 1990s, has paused. Stabilisation of the ozone hole along with natural climate variability were significant in bringing about the change. Together these influences have now caused the northern part of the peninsula to enter a temporary cooling phase. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“the stabilisation of the ozone hole and changing wind patterns has driven a regional cooling phase that is temporarily masking the warming influence of greenhouse gases.”
Jul 28th, 2016 - 09:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0There is no ozone hole, simply an annual thinning. There is no stabilisation of something that is a natural occurrence. When their predictions don't work, they come up with all sorts of creative thinking as to why.
They even deny their own data: “ analysis suggests that peninsula warming over the whole twentieth century was unusual, but not unprecedented in the context of the past 2,000 years. ”
So how can CO2 be a problem?
“The ice core records also reveal periods of warming and cooling over the last several centuries that were comparable to those observed in the post-1950s instrumental record. This highlights the large natural variability of temperatures in this region of Antarctica that has influenced more recent climate changes.”
So how can CO2 be a problem?
But it will be because our computer models say so....
”Climate model simulations predict that if greenhouse gas concentrations continue to increase at currently projected rates their warming effect will dominate over natural variability (and the cooling effect associated with recovering ozone levels) and there will be a warming of several degrees across the region by the end of this century. ”
Scientific nonsense.
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