It looks like the science isn’t settled.
Leaked documents obtained by the
Associated Press show that the U.S. government and several European governments
tried to get climate scientists to downplay the lack of global warming over the
past 15 years.
The highly anticipated United Nations
report on global warming is expected to affirm the link between human activity
and global warming, but scientists are still having trouble explaining away the
lull in rising global temperatures over the past 15 years despite rapidly rising
greenhouse gas levels.
The lull in global warming has been noted
by skeptics to show the flaws behind the science and the theory that human activities, primarily
through burning fossil fuels, causes global temperatures to
rise.
This has some governments worried, reports
the AP, as documents show that the U.S. government along with some European nations tried to convince the report’s authors to downplay the
lack of warming over the past 15 years.
The AP reports that “Germany called for
the reference to the slowdown to be deleted, saying a time span of 10-15 years
was misleading in the context of climate change, which is
measured over decades and centuries.”
“The U.S. also urged the authors to
include the ‘leading hypothesis’ that the reduction in warming is linked to more
heat being transferred to the deep ocean,” the AP noted. “Belgium objected to
using 1998 as a starting year for any statistics. …Using 1999 or 2000 as a
starting year would yield a more upward-pointing curve. Hungary worried the
report would provide ammunition for skeptics.”
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Monday, September 23, 2013
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