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Amid all the efforts to create panic over climate change it's good to have the calming influence of the Mail on Sunday. This morning, David Rose returns to the climate fray with an article looking at start dates for measuring the pause:
A footnote in the new report...confirms there has been no statistically significant increase since 1997.
Last night independent climate scientist Nic Lewis – an accredited IPCC reviewer and co-author of peer-reviewed papers – pointed out that taking start years of 2001, 2002 or 2003 would suggest a cooling trend of 0.02-0.05C per decade, though this would not be statistically significant.
In a box on the same page, we learn that the figure of 60% for the rebound in Arctic ice was in fact wrong, NSIDC having made an error on their webpage. Bob Ward is jumping up and down and demanding that Judith Curry apologise. He is a truly bizarre character.
In the same paper, we learn about the thriving polar bear populations of the Canadian Arctic:
For years polar bears have been the poster boys of global warming – routinely reported to be threatened with extinction due to melting ice-packs and rising sea temperatures.
Indeed, when they were put on the US Endangered Species list in 2008, they were the first to be registered solely because of the perceived threat of global warming.
One prominent scientist said their numbers would be reduced by 70 per cent by 2050 while global warming proponents – including Al Gore and Sir David Attenborough – used emotive imagery to highlight their ‘demise’.
Yet there is one small problem: many polar bear populations worldwide are now stable, if not increasing.