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Norway Data Shows Earth's Global Warming Less Severe Than Feared
2013-01-28
New estimates from a Norwegian research project show meeting targets for minimizing global warming may be more achievable than previously thought.
Quick... someone call Al Gore!!
After the planet's average surface temperature rose through the 1990s, the increase has almost leveled off at the level of 2000, while ocean water temperature has also stabilized, the Research Council of Norway said in a statement on its website. After applying data from the past decade, the results showed temperatures may rise 1.9 degrees Celsius if Co2 levels double by 2050, below the 3 degrees predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Always promising what they can't deliver. Typical.
"The Earth's mean temperature rose sharply during the 1990s," said Terje Berntsen, a professor at the University of Oslo who worked on the study. "This may have caused us to overestimate climate sensitivity."
That, and hype, and grants, and greed, and lust for power, and desire for control.
The findings also show the effect of reduced airborne particulates from burning coal, which may decrease the cloud cover that cools the earth, probably has less of an impact on climate through indirect cooling than originally projected.
Posted by:DarthVader

#13  Note that there is no mention of Solar activity as an influence on climate cycles.
Posted by: tipover   2013-01-28 23:12  

#12  That is right Iblis. If there has been any extra absorption, it has come from (now banned) chlorofluorocarbons which absorb in an otherwise empty window in the electromagnetic spectrum.
Posted by: rammer   2013-01-28 20:43  

#11  Those Huskies have no shame.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-01-28 18:54  

#10  I still can't believe that the The Earth's mean temperature rose sharply during the 1990s.

Heat Island effects and the type of data fudging that brought you the hockey stick were all too common for me to believe in as valid, honest, objective science.
Posted by: AlanC   2013-01-28 16:26  

#9  Two degrees C by 2050? It is to laugh.
Posted by: KBK   2013-01-28 15:26  

#8  Interesting Tipper. I always called it the flocking effect. One horse bolts then all the others join in on the run. Then again we have Norway at about 1:42 the lemmings mass suicide(all but a few die the conservatives);

Posted by: Dale   2013-01-28 14:19  

#7  Cities affect weather thousands of kilometres away
Looks like the hysteria generating Post-normal bien pensants will have to get back to the drawing board.
As Charles Mackay says in his wonderful book Madness of Crowds:
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."
Posted by: tipper   2013-01-28 13:47  

#6  Polar Bear decline still big there.

1-20 years they all be gone. Poof!!!.
Posted by: Dale   2013-01-28 11:34  

#5  Whew, that's a relief. I thought the sky was falling (sarc).
Posted by: JohnQC   2013-01-28 11:23  

#4  At some point CO2 has absorbed all the electromagnetic energy that it can absorb. It's an invisible gas -- most wavelengths go right through. This is why the 'tipping point' is so important to the climate people. Without it, you can't have a crisis. It's also pure conjecture and the weakest part of their entire argument.
Posted by: Iblis   2013-01-28 11:09  

#3   a Norwegian research project show meeting targets for minimizing global warming may be more achievable than previously thought.

Or said another way, this has been the biggest scam since the Piltdown Man, relying on cooked data and manufactured media hysteria. Maybe if we walk it back slowly, no one will notice.

As BP says, if your model does not fix the data, your model sucks. Science 101, folks.
Posted by: SteveS   2013-01-28 11:03  

#2  If the temperature stopped rising whilst the thing you correlate it with continues rises then it falsifies the whole linkage.

It's not "less severe" it's not a problem at all.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2013-01-28 10:05  

#1  What could the Norwegians possibly know about weather impacts ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-01-28 09:50  

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