Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: Arctic Methane - This Does Not Sound Good... [View all]Bob Wallace
(549 posts)"routinely talk about how temperatures will rise 5 or 6 degrees by 2100. Current temperature trends simply do not support that notion"
You mean trends based on 17-18 years of data or on something shorter? Remember, short runs do not establish a valid trend due to occurring noise in the data.
Now, I'm not sure how I could possibly determine your position form what you've posted. So far what I've seen from you is typical denier stuff. Cherry picking one single data point form a noisy dataset and posting a graph clearly designed to support the denier position.
That said, are you aware how fast the Arctic sea ice is disappearing? That the most conservative have backed off an 'end of the century' to something more like 'in 30 years' while the data is looking like we'll see summer melt within the next five years?
How about the Greenland ice cap melting faster than predicted? About how we're losing glaciers faster than most predicted?
How about the fact that CO2 levels are continuing to rapidly rise?
How about the observation that methane emissions from the Siberian continental shelf have apparently greatly increased.
What data do you use for your prediction that temperatures won't rise in a catastrophic manner? And, please, no short year slump in air/land temps.