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Re:World won't cool without geoengineering, warns report by anon1385 on Thursday September 26, 2013 @11:03AM (#6451227)
>The fact is that the current warming is well below projected temperatures.

That is pretty misleading. We don't claim to be able to model temperature over periods of time that short. You can easily pick other 15 year spans where the rate of warming was well above 'projected temperatures'. For example 1992 - 2006 was 0.28 deg.C/decade[1]. Were you going around in 2006 talking about how badly climate scientists had screwed up because warming was so much faster than they predicted? If not why are you doing it now?

[1] http://tamino.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/double-standard/

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Re:World won't cool without geoengineering, warns report by joshuahedlund on Thursday September 26, 2013 @11:55AM (#6451594)
> We don't claim to be able to model temperature over periods of time that short.

Right, that's why we get graphs with confidence intervals, right? From my understanding, the previous warming was still within the alleged confidence intervals. However, instead of accelerating as expected, it's about to fall out of the projected intervals completely[1]

[1]http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2157446...

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