The UN's IPCC released their AR15 summary report today. If you noticed, you are one of the few. Here is my favorite comment to date on the story from
Tom Nelson.
Time
magazine: When it was warming, the reason was CO2 and climate was
simple; now that it’s not warming, the reason isn’t known and climate is
complex
Climate skeptics have seized on the fact that the rate of warming
over the past decade or so has been less than climate scientists
predicted given the continued increase in carbon emissions. The IPCC
report address the warming “hiatus,” as it’s been called, raising a
number of possible explanations—the ocean absorbing the warmth, changes
in the solar cycle, volcanic eruptions that cause cooling—without
pointing the finger at a single one. Which just underscores how complex
the climate system remains, even as we keep experimenting on it. The
scientists will keep working on those questions and others…
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