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What's a good word to describe global land surface temperatures lately?
Surface temperatures have been in the news obviously and mostly for the wrong reason; they aren't increasing. So let's look at some the words (I've heard) used to describe this:
"Pause" - I think this has an implication that warming may have stopped but like the button on your iPod, it will continue at sometime in the future.
"Hiatus" - This is similar to pause. Although, for some reason it implies a longer duration.
"Plateau" - This one clearly implies that temperatures have reached some sort of apex and also implies they will not be going up.
"Accelerating" - I'm not sure how this can be used with regard to land temperatures. Perhaps if you're deceptive you can claim you were talking about all temperatures, even ones we don't actually feel day to day (i.e. deep ocean heat content).
Well that's a start. So bring out your own words, your own interpretations, where you've seen them used or abused, etc. Notice I haven't thrown in a time frame so have a slice of that cherry pie as well.
11 Answers
- JimZLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
The one we should be hearing is
"Ooops"
or maybe
Ahhcrap
Note:
I was thinking about it and there is an Indonesian geologist at my work who uses very colorful English. I suspect he might say Temperatures have recently undergone a quiescence. When he said that our remediation system is currently undergoing a period of quiescence, I tried to edit it to say they were turned off (I tend to speak plainly) but he insisted so anyway maybe it will catch on.
- antarcticiceLv 78 years ago
"pause" seems a popular word with a number of denier accounts lately, but any honest look at the temperature shows many dips and spikes in the 100+ year record, dips the 00s, 40s in the 70's as well as rises in the 1890's, 1910's, 1930's late 1950's and late 1970's as well as the very pronounced rise from the mid 1990's. effects like the PDO and ENSO are going to continue to cause natural variability.
But that doesn't change the fact that cool years now like 2008 and 2011 are in fact warmer than record warm years (at the time) like 1995, any look at the full record shows the long slow rise in temperature due to Co2, deniers are of course looking for any excuse and have tried in fact to use many.
2013 is on the year to date data the 7th warmest year in the modern record
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2013/6#temp
The current record warmest year in the modern record is 2010 just 2.5 years ago, if there is a pause it's nothing like the 15 years deniers try to claim, but then I think you guys know that which is why you won't answer these points. Now lets see if you will play the same game Pat did and ask me to reply and then immediately shut down the question.
- Anonymous8 years ago
Weather.
You said lately. I presume that by lately, mean less than 30 years ago.
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- Elmer98Lv 78 years ago
it's within the variability of long term warming, meanwhile oceans are still heating up.
- Anonymous8 years ago
Summer.
- CaliservativeLv 58 years ago
Judith Curry used the word "stopped", and argued that to say otherwise 'detracts from the credibility of the data'.
She is right.
- KanoLv 78 years ago
I would say peaked (like peak oil) we have reached the summit and are on our way back down.
See Chem cant even admit temps have stopped rising, when they are actually falling
- ?Lv 78 years ago
Slowed.
As I understand it, temperatures *are* still increasing, they're just not increasing as *fast* as we had previously expected.
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