Wednesday, October 9, 2013

The pause in global warming...Real??? and if so Why???

My sense has been that the increased heat input to Earth due to increased greenhouse gas emissions has been absorbed by the oceans, and thus caused a temporary pause in land surface temperature rise.

And that may be correct, but here from expert climatologist Dr. Richard Muller of Berkeley, is a more detailed analysis,  A Pause, Not an End, to Warming   (click top link to NY Times article, plus also please explore Berkeley Earth, as we will be exploring it in our upcoming class).


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