The greens have concealed debate with their “dissenter-trashing machine.”
“Last year The Mail on Sunday reported a stunning fact: that global warming had ‘paused’ for 16 years. The Met Office’s own monthly figures showed there had been no statistically significant increase in the world’s temperature since 1997. We were vilified. One Green website in the US said our report was ‘utter bilge’ that had to be ‘exposed and attacked’. The Met Office issued a press release claiming it was misleading, before quietly admitting a few days later that it was true that the world had not got significantly warmer since 1997 after all. A Guardian columnist wondered how we could be ‘punished’.” [Daily Mail]
Actually, the report said that the global rise in temperature was not statistically significant year to year (p>0.05). But when taken over the entire 14 year period, the results did show an overall increase in global temperature at a 1% significance level.
Somebody in Pravda didn’t get the memo and therefore must be punished.
The problem is not the difficulty of predicting something as chaotic as the Earth’s climate, but the almost Stalinist way the Green Establishment tries to stifle dissent.
They printed this? In a mainstream media outlet?? I think I may faint.
Moooar, plz.
I “deny” that there is a consistent method of averaging a “global” temperature to conclude that a deviation from some “14 deg.C radiant equilibrium value” has meaning.
So I’m the answer to their question, “Who are the ‘deniers’ now?”