Who hit the pause button on Global Warming?

Question

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070809225722.demeczc1&show_article=1

I think the Cows just stopped farting for a year!

Answer 1

Mother nature, according to that story! ;-)

Answer 2

Did any of you even bother to read the article? The answer to your question is in the very first sentence:

"Natural weather variations have offset the effects of global warming for the past couple of years and will continue to keep temperatures flat through 2008, a study released Thursday said.

But global warming will begin in earnest in 2009, and a couple of the years between 2009 and 2014 will eclipse 1998, the warmest year on record to date, in the heat stakes, British meteorologists said".

Answer 3

Trying using a reputable source. I looked up the article that they claimed to used for this story. Their headline is completely false and nothing in the article says anything like what they are saying. Here is the abstract from the study:

"Previous climate model projections of climate change accounted for external forcing from natural and anthropogenic sources but did not attempt to predict internally generated natural variability. We present a new modeling system that predicts both internal variability and externally forced changes and hence forecasts surface temperature with substantially improved skill throughout a decade, both globally and in many regions. Our system predicts that internal variability will partially offset the anthropogenic global warming signal for the next few years. However, climate will continue to warm, with at least half of the years after 2009 predicted to exceed the warmest year currently on record. "

This is from the journal Science.

Breitbart lies.

Answer 4

for the U.S. la Nina years are cooler than El Nino years. the next El Nino cycle will be hotter than the last one

Answer 5

The Flying Spaghetti Monster of course we have converted enough people into pirates to prevent global warming huzzah!

Answer 6

Ma it was me , I went to Ville Platte because that where that button is at ya.
2012 is coming and there is nothing we can do about it, life on earth will change again.

Answer 7

I don't think too many people in Brooklyn, where a tornado touched down for the first time in recorded history, think the pause button has been hit.

Answer 8

Cold Pacific waters did. Didn't you read the article?

Answer 9

I read it as catching a temporary, lucky break, due to natural weather variations... only localized in some cases. I hope you are not trying to offer this one article to deny global climate change. If you're interested, here's some other articles I've glanced at recently:

The Secret Campaign of President Bush's Administration To Deny Global Warming
"It is no secret that industry-connected appointees within the White House have worked actively to distort the findings of federal climate scientists, playing down the threat of climate change."
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/15148655/the_secret_campaign_of_president_bushs_administration_to_deny_global_warming/1

US cuts back climate checks from space
"President Bush is trying to convince the world the US is ready to take the lead in reducing greenhouse gases. But meanwhile, the administration is drastically scaling back efforts to measure global warming from space."
http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=6610716&nav=5D7v

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
"An unprecedented level of political interference threatens the integrity of government science."
http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/
http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/restoring/scientific-integrity-update-05-2007.html#UCS_Exposes_Climate_Science_Censorship

USA Today - Global Warming (various articles)
-- White House sees black gold in melting sea ice
"Arctic sea ice has decreased nearly 20% in the last two decades as the Earth's climate warms, making access to the area easier. The eight countries bordering the region, including the USA, are now staking competing claims."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-07-30-arctic_N.htm
-- Is Earth near its 'tipping points' from global warming?
"...thousands of climate scientists and representatives of more than 100 nations, including the USA, present in the most stark terms the "key global risks" — serious environmental consequences from the changing climate — that threaten humanity."
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2007-04-03-tipping-points_N.htm
-- Bird species showing up farther north
"More bird species in the USA are ranging farther north and even staying there for the winter in a possible sign of adaptation to global warming, ornithologists and conservation groups say."
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2007-03-18-birds-winter_N.htm
-- Climate studies show polar warming trend
"Three climate studies published Thursday raise new concerns about the effects of warmer temperatures and pollution on polar environments."
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/2007-03-16-polar-studies_N.htm

(Amazon Rainforest) - A disaster to take everyone's breath away
"It is a sign that severe drought is returning to the Amazon for a second successive year. And that would be ominous. New research suggests that one further dry year beyond that could tip the whole vast forest into a cycle of destruction."
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10392615&pnum=0

Global warming 'could see NZ swamped by refugees'
"What happens if climate refugees from the Pacific or Asia knock on the door, or our half-million expat Kiwis all decide to come home to ride out the rigours of climate change?"
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/feature/story.cfm?c_id=26&objectid=10454999

2007: First or second hottest year on record so far
"Don’t worry Denyers–I wouldn’t dare attribute this extreme weather to human-caused climate change. No, let’s just say, if we don’t take action soon, this weather won’t be extreme for very long–it’ll just be the norm."
http://climateprogress.org/2007/07/17/2007-first-or-second-hottest-year-on-record-so-far
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata/GLB.Ts.txt

Report Warns of a Much Warmer Northeast
"People in Philadelphia would swelter through as many as 30 days with temperatures higher than 100 degrees each summer."
"Winters would be on average 8 to 12 degrees higher by the end of the century, and summers 6 to 14 degrees higher."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/11/AR2007071100942.html?nav=hcmodule

A Sacred River Endangered by Global Warming
"The Gangotri glacier, which provides up to 70 percent of the water of the Ganges during the dry summer months, is shrinking at a rate of 40 yards a year, nearly twice as fast as two decades ago, scientists say."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/16/AR2007061600461.html?nav=rss_world

Global warming 'is three times faster than worst predictions'
"They have found that emissions of carbon dioxide have been rising at thrice the rate in the 1990s. The Arctic ice cap is melting three times as fast - and the seas are rising twice as rapidly - as had been predicted."
http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article2609305.ece

NASA: Danger Point Closer Than Thought From Warming
'Disastrous Effects' of Global Warming Tipping Points Near, According to New Study"
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3223473&page=1

Everest ice forest melting due to global warming, says Greenpeace
"One of the world's most spectacular ice formations - the towering serac forest near Mount Everest's base camp - is rapidly shrinking as a result of global warming, Greenpeace said today."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/may/30/climatechange.climatechange

I'll stop here because some of these articles are very old, the last being from May 30, 2007.

Answer 10

What do you mean? Clearly all the hard work Al Gore has been doing is paying off. (sarcasm intended)