re: #67 Bagua

OT:

The Daily Mail has published a somewhat sceptical article in their Science & Tech page.

Whatever happened to global warming?

The cooling, I have read, is part of a larger cycle of climate deregulation. People tend to think in terms of hot/cold, but the reality of GW is much more intricate. The extremes apparently perfectly correspond to what has been expected to occur…

Before the warming goes off the deep end.

“Mojib Latif, a member of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), stressed the impact of the ocean currents in the North Atlantic - a phenomenon called the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the Atlantic Meridional Oscillation.
He believes we may be in a period of cooling - but that it will be temporary before global warming reasserts itself.
He said the NAO may have been responsible for some of the rapid rise in temperatures of the last three decades.
‘But how much? The jury is still out,’ he said.
So is the sun really going down on global warming?
The Met Office is not convinced.
They incorporate solar and oceanic cycles into their models, and they say that - even if there are periods of slower warming, or temporary cooling, the long-term trend in global temperatures is still on the up.”