''With that underlying trend of a warming climate, it loads the dice towards having record high temperatures...."
Firstly, I am not a climate change denier. But there have been various articles published lately with comments from leading scientists that require consideration:-
According to Bret Stephens of WSJ, surface air temperatures since 1998 have held flat, "a fact now grudgingly conceded by the climate-science establishment, despite more than 100 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide having been pumped into the atmosphere.
Nature is far more imaginative than we are", Stamatos Krimigis, the Johns Hopkins physicist, said last month when readings from the Voyager spacecraft failed to match expectations. That kind of humility in the face of data is tough for today's environmentalists, who have staked so much on their own models, predictions and certitudes." (Stephens' article: Can Environmentalists Think?)
The argument on climate change has reached "key turning points - similar to the tipping points in the earth's climate system.....The first of these is that most of the advanced greenhouse warming advocates have of late grumpily acknowledged that temperature increases have been somewhat more subdued over the past decade and a half than the climate models forecast.. The story now, according to leading warming theory proponent scientist Kevin Trenberth, of the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in the US, and others, is that the oceans are warming instead of the atmosphere." (AFR, today: What the fuss is all about)
If this is true, then it's going to take quite some time for the rest of the world to catch up - if they ever do - on the new information!
