Climatologists and climate-change deniers agree on at least one thing this week: everyone is awaiting the landmark U.N. report on climate change that will be presented at next week’s meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The report will also include data that indicates the rate of warming from 1998 to 2012 slowed to about half the average rate since 1951, citing natural variability in the climate system, as well as cooling effects from volcanic eruptions and a downward phase in solar activity.
What won’t be there is a more thorough explanation for the supposed decline in warming.
The lack of warming data has been around for a while.
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I am not surprised Tom Karl retired from NOAA in 2016, the year after he discovered that there were flaws in NOAA's temperature data and the world was continuing to warm. Karl raised the original temperatures between 2001-2015 by an average of more than 0.065 C. This removed the cooling trend just prior to the Paris conference which resulted the success of the Paris Accord which has cost the world trillions.
Tom Karl, in the 1997 NOAA Annual Climate Report, posted a global temperature of 62.45 F which is almost 4 degrees F warmer then 2020 global temperature at 58.78 F.