01-28-2017, 10:17 PM
(01-28-2017, 07:53 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: As the graph David posted shows, global warming has accelerated in the last 3 years. Before 2000, 1998 was a sudden uptick year (which I predicted it to be in my book). Global warming skeptics and deniers put out this scam for several years that warming had stopped, because it had not changed as much since 2000. But that leaves out how much more warming had occurred before then, and how in the 2000s era it stabilized at this much higher level than before 1998. These deniers are people who can't read graphs.
The current uptick is due to an El Nino event, same as the 1998 uptick. Alarmists advertising it as the beginning of a new trend line are just setting themselves up for another decade of "global warming has stopped" responses when the temperature stabilizes again after the El Nino.