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pscot

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Wed Sep 11, 2013, 09:53 PM Sep 2013

Has AGW slowed down?

Some commenters skeptical of the severity of projected climate change have recently seized on two sources to argue that the climate may be less sensitive than many scientists say and the impacts of climate change therefore less serious: A yet-to-be-published study from Norwegian researchers, and remarks by James Annan, a climate scientist with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC).

http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/2013/03/making-sense-of-sensitivity-and-keeping-it-in-perspective/



http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=is-global-warming-cooler-than-expected

research suggesting the Earth may warm more slowly than scientists had expected.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/science/earth/what-to-make-of-a-climate-change-plateau.html?_r=0

The rise in the surface temperature of earth has been markedly slower over the last 15 years than in the 20 years before that.


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