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Met Office Reports : Media Opinion Differs
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Oo, it's so hard knowing which version of reality to plump for, if you have to judge by the headlines alone.
These articles were published on the same day, based on the same report from the Meteorological Office, in different high quality newspapers :-
https://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/nov/26/global-warming-met-office
"World is warming quicker than thought in past decade, says Met Office : Report comes as scientists predict 2010 could be hottest year on record : Damian Carrington, The Guardian, Friday 26 November 2010 : The world warmed more rapidly than previously thought over the past decade, according to a Met Office report published today, which finds the evidence for man-made climate change has grown even stronger over the last year…"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/8159991/Global-warming-has-slowed-because-of-pollution.html
"Global warming has slowed because of pollution : Global warming has slowed in the last decade, according to the Met Office, as the world pumps out so much pollution it is reflecting the sun's rays and causing a cooling effect. By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent, 26 Nov 2010 : The latest figures from more than 20 scientific institutions around the world show that global temperatures are higher than ever. However the gradual rise in temperatures over the last 30 years is slowing slightly. Global warming since the 1970s has been 0.16C (0.3F) but the rise in the last decade was just 0.05C (0.09F), according to the Met Office. Sceptics claim this as evidence man made global warming is a myth…"
I think I'll go with Damian Carrington's version, because at least he mentions more than one possible reason for why Global Warming hasn't been accelerating as much in the last decade as the ones immediately prior.
Despite the slow down in acceleration, the temperatures are still rising, so there's no need to use the word "cooling" in Louise Gray's sub-heading.
And there's no reason at all for Louise to mention the anti-science so-called "sceptics", who are actually deniers. They would deny the Moon was made of rock, if they could manipulate the tiniest piece of evidence, or twist the most innocent of words, to make it appear that there were uncertainties about the exact composition of the samples taken from Earth's satellite by the NASA astronauts.
There is still an outside probability that the Moon could be made of cheese, folks, according to the type of argument put forward by the sceptic-deniers.
But as we all know, that's impossible, because the Moon landings were faked, and in fact, the Moon is only painted onto the sky dome, as it isn't actually there any more as it was removed during an undocumented altercation between nuclear states some time in the 1990s.
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Lords of Timewasting ?
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The not-widely-awaited "investigation" into the official inquiries into "Climategate" from the Nigel Lawson "social experiment", the "Global Warming Policy Foundation", looks to me rather like a botched piece of cosmetic surgery on first scan.
I'd recommend avoiding it, as it seems to me like a total waste of valuable time, based, as I believe it is, on an obvious absence of leg-shaped support.
I wouldn't have bothered spending five vacant minutes commenting on it unless I knew my various sceptic readers were standing by, eagerly salivating over tearing me to shreds about any statements I might make.
Lunch, boys ?
If you are a proper Climate Change researcher, unless you've got the time and funds and staffing to launch an investigation into how the Climategate Media circus was ever allowed to happen, I'd suggest you avoid entering into any kind of discussion about this latest seemingly vapid wraith of veneer.
https://www.thegwpf.org/climategate/1532-damning-new-investigation-into-climategate-inquiries.html
I am sure you will detect what looks like irascible sniping from Andrew Montford (as known as "Bishop Hll") in various newspaper reports that follow on from this outpouring of apparently obsessive introspection into a non-scandal that's deader than a century-old donkey's fetid tail.
But nothing will trounce the ultimate truth – Climategate will never breathe another modecule of serious Media oxygen, even if it lives on in rabid obscurity in Internet zombie-blog-land.
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Unqualified Opinion (1) : Dan Gardner
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There are several journalists out there who simply can't cope with the real risks posed by dangerous Climate Change.
Following a rather reasonable, rational article by Louise Grey, Tom Chivers gave the "loaded dice" metaphor to straighten her up on language :-
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/7937269/Pakistan-floods-Climate-change-experts-say-global-warming-could-be-the-cause.html
"Pakistan floods: Climate change experts say global warming could be the cause : The world weather crisis that is causing floods in Pakistan, wildfires in Russia and landslides in China is evidence that global warming predictions are correct, according to climate change experts. : By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent : Published: 10 Aug 2010 : Almost 14 million people have been affected by the torrential rains in Pakistan, making it a more serious humanitarian disaster than the South Asian tsunami and recent earthquakes in Kashmir and Haiti combined. The disaster was driven by a 'supercharged jet stream' that has also caused floods in China and a prolonged heatwave in Russia. It comes after flash floods in France and Eastern Europe killed more than 30 people over the summer. Experts from the United Nations (UN) and universities around the world said the recent "extreme weather events" prove global warming is already happening. Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, vice-president of the body set up by the UN to monitor global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said the 'dramatic' weather patterns are consistent with changes in the climate caused by mankind. "These are events which reproduce and intensify in a climate disturbed by greenhouse gas pollution," he said. "Extreme events are one of the ways in which climatic changes become dramatically visible."…"
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