(Hat tip Planet Gore)
Der Spiegel is reporting that climate scientists are in quandary about the last decade. You see, depending on who's data you look at, either the past 10 years have seen a cooling trend or no temperature rise. And the climate models did not predict that (especially since CO2 concentration has risen during the decade):
"At present, however, the warming is taking a break," confirms meteorologist Mojib Latif of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in the northern German city of Kiel. Latif, one of Germany's best-known climatologists, says that the temperature curve has reached a plateau. "There can be no argument about that," he says. "We have to face that fact."
And the facts don't jib with the climate models:
Even though the temperature standstill probably has no effect on the long-term warming trend, it does raise doubts about the predictive value of climate models . . .
And what does this say about climate science?
The controversy sends confusing and mixed messages to the lay public. Why is there such a vigorous debate over climate change, even though it isn't getting warmer at the moment? And how can it be that scientists cannot even arrive at a consensus on changes in temperatures, even though temperatures are constantly being measured?
Indeed, we should destroy our economy, throw thousands if not millions into poverty based on a science that can't even agree if temperatures are going up or down? If the models didn't predict the cooling trend we've seen since 2000, how can they predict what's going to happen in 2100? Or perhaps the models are all wrong because global warming is natural?
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