01-03-2008, 04:10 AM
[quote billb]Individual weather extremes can't be attributed to global warming, scientists always say. However, "it's the run of them and the different locations" that have the mark of man-made climate change, said top European climate expert Phil Jones, director of the climate research unit at the University of East Anglia in England.
What kind of double-speak is that ?
Its not double-speak.
The author of the article is stating (correctly) that you cannot attribute the two consecutive record-breaking high temperatures in Portland, Tenn. (for instance) to Global Warming. There is enough variability in the day-to-day temperatures in a single location that a singular event might have nothing to do with a global warming or cooling trend.
The author then goes on to quote Dr. Jones explaining that a series of many such events, in widely separated locations, however, may be taken as significant w.r.t. global climate trends.
The current very steep and accelerating warming trend is detectable in the year-to-year, seasonally and globally averaged temperatures. In the short-term, or over a geographically small scale, the trend is lost in the noise.
What kind of double-speak is that ?
Its not double-speak.
The author of the article is stating (correctly) that you cannot attribute the two consecutive record-breaking high temperatures in Portland, Tenn. (for instance) to Global Warming. There is enough variability in the day-to-day temperatures in a single location that a singular event might have nothing to do with a global warming or cooling trend.
The author then goes on to quote Dr. Jones explaining that a series of many such events, in widely separated locations, however, may be taken as significant w.r.t. global climate trends.
The current very steep and accelerating warming trend is detectable in the year-to-year, seasonally and globally averaged temperatures. In the short-term, or over a geographically small scale, the trend is lost in the noise.