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'Pause' in global warming was never real, new research proves
Claims of a 'pause' in observed global temperature warming are comprehensively disproved in a pair of new studies published today.
An international team of climate researchers reviewed existing data and studies and reanalysed them. They concluded there has never been a statistically significant 'pause' in global warming. This conclusion holds whether considering the `pause' as a change in the rate of warming in observations or as a mismatch in rate between observations and expectations from climate models.
[...] Dr. Risbey said: "Our findings show there is little or no statistical evidence for a 'pause' in GMST rise. Neither the current data nor the historical data support it. Moreover, updates to the GMST data through the period of 'pause' research have made this conclusion stronger. But, there was never enough evidence to reasonably draw any other conclusion.
"Global warming did not pause, but we need to understand how and why scientists came to believe it had, to avoid future episodes like this. The climate-research community's acceptance of a 'pause' in global warming caused confusion for the public and policy system about the pace and urgency of climate change.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Thursday December 20 2018, @03:47AM (7 children)
Proves? Time after time, we get articles about "new research" claiming to "prove" something - anything. Ho-hum. No research is ever dis-proven, cast into doubt, questioned, superseded, or shown to be fraudulent.
Better titles are those that "suggest". New research suggests that the sun rises in the east, and sets in the west. Except, we know that sun doesn't rise or set - instead as the earth rotates, the sun becomes visible to a portion of the earth, then becomes invisible.
Global warming pause? Yeah, that has happened before. We've even had a mini-ice age, within recorded history.
So, what are they pushing now? Not that same old hockey stick thing from Al Gore? OK, no hockey stick. Let them run at the mouth. The natives need to be worked up again, don't they? Maybe they'll lose some weight when they get agitated, and march in a meaningless demonstration.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 20 2018, @03:55AM (5 children)
I'm waiting for "new research" to say bacon and beer for breakfast is good for you. We're part way there. Eggs and butter are back on the menu. And they're having second thoughts about salt.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 20 2018, @04:04AM (3 children)
Regarding the salt in the diet, it is actually that more salt is associated with a lower blood pressure:
https://www.fasebj.org/doi/abs/10.1096/fasebj.31.1_supplement.446.6 [fasebj.org]
While obviously consuming salt raises blood pressure in the short term, presumably there is some feedback that leads to lower blood pressure in the long term.
I think the truth is something like this:
People consume exactly as much fat and protein and salt as they need, but a high carb diet messes everything up (your body expects a low percent (10%) of carbs) making people eat too much of everything.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 20 2018, @04:30AM
The problem with salt is that about 10% of people have a bad hypertension reaction to too much of it.
This reaction is so bad that even though it has little to no effect on 90% of people, in any statistical analysis this 10% of people skew the average so that salt looks really really bad.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 20 2018, @05:03AM (1 child)
I don't care. I like salt, so I eat it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 20 2018, @05:09AM
You will stop eating it if you eat too much. That is the point.
Dont eat the "food pyramid" diet that tricks you into consuming more of various stuff like salt than you otherwise would.
But really, get some fries and just douse them with salt. If it still isnt salty enough, add some more. Eventually your body will reject it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 20 2018, @05:12AM
Offtopic??! How was that Offtopic? You damn people got it right there in the headline, "New Research"! And I'm talking about new research! You no speeka the English?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by darkfeline on Thursday December 20 2018, @10:02PM
> No research is ever dis-proven
The ONLY thing science can ever do is disprove. If you find evidence consistent with your theory, that does not prove your theory. If you find evidence contradicting your theory, then your theory is wrong.
The point of science isn't to formally prove anything, since that is impossible, but to build models and theories that are useful and have not yet been shown to be wrong within a certain domain.
For example, Newtonian physics is wrong. However, for everyday use the model is very useful and within this particular domain it has not yet been shown to be wrong.
So far as we know, all evidence points to the planet turning into a very FUN place sometime in the foreseeable future. You don't need to "believe" in global warming to see this. All of our pollution combined (light, noise, chemical, air, etc.) (and other social issues notwithstanding) is going to screw us over one way or another and quite frankly I don't care if the final cause is global warming or nuclear war over resources or critical disease outbreak or ...
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