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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Global warming "lull" only temporary, German researchers caution
2008-06-04
A "lull" in global warming over the next decade should not be misinterpreted as meaning that the greenhouse effect has stopped, German researchers warn.
"That last research grant ain't gonna last our whole lives, ya know!!!! We won't stand for a "lull" in our gravy train, capische?"
North Atlantic sea surface temperatures may actually decrease slightly in the next decade, according to the researchers with Germany's Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in Kiel. Their paper also suggests global surface temperatures may not actually increase either. But they caution that their findings should not be interpreted to mean that global warming has stopped.

On the contrary, the "lull" is only a temporary phenomenon associated with ocean currents, writes Dr. Noel Keenlyside in the report published in Nature. The effect of rising fossil fuel emissions will mean that warming will accelerate again after 2015 when natural trends in the oceans veer back towards warming, according to the German researchers' computer model. "Our prediction is that there will be no warming until 2015 but it will pick up after that," Keenlyside says.
"Coincidentally, our mortgages are scheduled to reset in 2015. Strictly coincidentally."
The new computer model attempts to predict what might happen to the climate of the North Atlantic over a period of decades. It suggests the temperature of the sea and Europe and North America may cool slightly. The Kiel researchers say the North Atlantic has variability on a 70 to 80-year cycle and the meridional overturning circulation (MOC), a giant "conveyor belt" which brings warm water northwards into the area, had an important role to play in driving those fluctuations.

When the circulation is strong, it creates warmer temperatures.
Posted by:Seafarious

#20  When is the lull in the global warming bs and propsganda ?
Posted by: wxjames   2008-06-04 20:19  

#19  Joe what do you intercept and decode about Sol falling off the Main Sequence and going Solar Rogue? Anything to it?

J08!
Posted by: George Smiley   2008-06-04 19:46  

#18  Denver heard Obama is coming.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2008-06-04 19:13  

#17  high tomorrow in Denver, June 5: 58 degrees.
Posted by: OldSpook   2008-06-04 18:35  

#16  After all their prediction of more light in the morning and less light in the evening and overnight was right on!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2008-06-04 13:20  

#15  I think they are predicting warming trends in the summer months and then cooling again in the winter months.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2008-06-04 13:07  

#14  But Obama declared it is “the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal”.
I saw it with my own eyes and there was a litany of Angelic past presidents led by Abe Lincoln circling in the background, so it must be true. And he hasn't even signed Kyoto yet. Imagine how much more "lulling" that's going to cause.
Posted by: tipper   2008-06-04 12:57  

#13   But impossible to read

Nah, you just have to run it through the Joe Translator. For example:

"INTERIOR LIGHT DEFLECTIONS = BOUNCING RICCOCHETS vv REFLEC SHINY SURFACES-MIRRORS SHOW A RED = DEEP RED PRISM."

Translates as:

"Wow. Dude. Look at the colors!"
Posted by: Steve   2008-06-04 12:20  

#12  Does anyone know exactly what date range they're using for this warming "trend"?

I've seen all sorts of dates but no one answer. Afterall it was hot in the '30s and then got cooler. We haven't had warming since '98 so this lull looks to be 20 or so years long.

If they started counting right after they got over the cooling scare of the '70s then this lull/cooling will have been longer than the warming.

Grifters the whole lot of them.
Posted by: AlanC   2008-06-04 11:13  

#11  Okay let's imagine that they are right, that there is man made global warming and that there is a lull.
That means that in global warming there are two components: the upwards component and a cyclic component.

Since ther cyclic component was never integrated in past forecasts that means thet future rise has been grossly overstimated. Or said in other words that the temperature level forecast for 2100 will not be reached until several centuries later. By then technology will have changed so much that what we make in 2008 is irrelevant. Like if our ancestors had dug giant pits for coollecting the zillion tons of horse manure they thought we would nbe producing.
Posted by: JFM   2008-06-04 09:55  

#10  June 1 snowpack here in Colorado is at 120% of normal.
Posted by: OldSpook   2008-06-04 09:31  

#9  We're in a lull. Don't know how long it'll be... may be days... may be decades...

You better give me lots of money just in case...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2008-06-04 08:23  

#8  I guess we are all doomed no matter what so we should spend the last parts of our lives in complete excess!
Posted by: DarthVader   2008-06-04 07:31  

#7  What we seeing now is Academic world's analog of evolution in action the smart ones will switch to "Comming Ice Age" & keep the grants rolling.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2008-06-04 04:41  

#6  Meanwhile in the real world as opposed to the Playstation world of the models. May UAH global temps are out. Cooling continues, particularly in the Tropics, where May is now the coolest monthly anomaly in 20 years.

http://www.atmos.uah.edu/data/msu/t2lt/tltglhmam_5.2
Posted by: phil_b   2008-06-04 04:04  

#5  But impossible to read
Posted by: Mizzou Mafia   2008-06-04 03:18  

#4  In triplicate! Hard to overlook!
Posted by: Spike Uniter   2008-06-04 03:08  

#3  REDDIT > VARIOUS- SCIENTISTS WORRIED OVER SPOTLESS SUN/LACK OF SUNSPOTS; + RUMORMILLNEWS > OUR SPOTLESS SUN - HERALDING A NEW ICE AGE?

FYI, AS EXAMPLE > THIS WEEK > here on Guam, while the weekdaya thus far appear nice, clear and white sunny, INTERIOR LIGHT DEFLECTIONS = BOUNCING RICCOCHETS vv REFLEC SHINY SURFACES-MIRRORS SHOW A RED = DEEP RED PRISM.

AN OTHERWISE BEAUTIFUL TROPICAL GUAM DAY = also RED/DEEP RED as per multi-point/source light aural or prismic reflections. This did NOT occur 1970's - 1990's.

NOT ONLY PRISMIC BUT ALSO OPTICAL-VISUAL, at least in my case.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-06-04 00:45  

#2  REDDIT > VARIOUS- SCIENTISTS WORRIED OVER SPOTLESS SUN/LACK OF SUNSPOTS; + RUMORMILLNEWS > OUR SPOTLESS SUN - HERALDING A NEW ICE AGE?

FYI, AS EXAMPLE > THIS WEEK > here on Guam, while the weekdaya thus far appear nice, clear and white sunny, INTERIOR LIGHT DEFLECTIONS = BOUNCING RICCOCHETS vv REFLEC SHINY SURFACES-MIRRORS SHOW A RED = DEEP RED PRISM.

AN OTHERWISE BEAUTIFUL TROPICAL GUAM DAY = also RED/DEEP RED as per multi-point/source light aural or prismic reflections. This did NOT occur 1970's - 1990's.

NOT ONLY PRISMIC BUT ALSO OPTICAL-VISUAL, at least in my case.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-06-04 00:45  

#1  REDDIT > VARIOUS- SCIENTISTS WORRIED OVER SPOTLESS SUN/LACK OF SUNSPOTS; + RUMORMILLNEWS > OUR SPOTLESS SUN - HERALDING A NEW ICE AGE?

FYI, AS EXAMPLE > THIS WEEK > here on Guam, while the weekdaya thus far appear nice, clear and white sunny, INTERIOR LIGHT DEFLECTIONS = BOUNCING RICCOCHETS vv REFLEC SHINY SURFACES-MIRRORS SHOW A RED = DEEP RED PRISM.

AN OTHERWISE BEAUTIFUL TROPICAL GUAM DAY = also RED/DEEP RED as per multi-point/source light aural or prismic reflections. This did NOT occur 1970's - 1990's.

NOT ONLY PRISMIC BUT ALSO OPTICAL-VISUAL, at least in my case.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-06-04 00:44  

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