More on the "Chinese aerosols" explanation for global temperature stasis



The research concerned has been found wanting in a number of ways, some of which I mentioned yesterday. Below is another stake through its heart

A media summary of the paper:
The lull in global warming from 1998 to 2008 was mainly caused by a sharp rise in China’s coal use, a study suggests.

The absence of a temperature rise over that decade is often used by “climate sceptics” as grounds for denying the existence of man-made global warming.

But the new study, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concludes that smog from the extra coal acted to mask greenhouse warming. China’s coal use doubled 2002-2007, according to US government figures.

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HOWEVER:

China is one of the few places that hasn’t cooled since 1998, but why let actual data interfere with climate propaganda?

1 comment:

  1. I must admit that I'm never ceased to be amazed at how contradictory information doesn't cause the AGW crowd's to question their premise of man-made climate change.
    Either the data supports coal burning = greenhouse gases = warming, or coal burning = greenhouse gases + cooling particulates = no warming, or there is something else happening other than what the vested interests (AGW proponants) have in mind.

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    OpenID doesn't seem to work at all.

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