Posted on 14 June 2015 by John Hartz

SkS Highlights

Dana's What you need to know about the NOAA global warming faux pause paper garnered the highest number of comments of the articles posted on SkS during the past week. Dana extracts five key points from the NOAA paper, Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming hiatu, Thomas R Karl et al, Science. They are:

1. Rapid Global Warming Continues
2. The Surface Warming Slowdown is Probably Over
3. The Most Common Denial Response: Conspiracy Theories
4. The Adjustments Reduce Global Warming!
5. The Adjustments are Important

El Niño Watch

• El Niño Forecast Brings Calif. Hope for Drought Relief by Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, June 11, 2015
• El Nino Likely to Last Through Winter 2015-2016, NOAA Says by Jon Erdman, Weather Channel, June 11, 2015
• June El Niño update: Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead by Emily Becker, Climate.gov, June 11, 2015

Toon of the Week

Hat tip to I Heart Climate Scientists

Quotes of the Week

“Decarbonization by the end of the century may well be too late because the magnitude of climate change long before then will exceed the bounds of many ecosystems and farms, and likely will be very disruptive,” Kevin Trenberth, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., said.

The goal is a step in the right direction, but not very meaningful considering greenhouse gas emissions need to be reduced dramatically within the next decade, well ahead of the G7’s timeline, Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University, said.

“In my view, the science makes clear that 2050 or 2100 is way too far down the road,” he said. “We will need near-term limits if we are going to avoid dangerous warming of the planet.”

G7 Carbon Goal May Come Too Late, Scientists Say by Bobby Magill, Climate Central, June 9, 2015 

SkS in the News

John Cook's Denial 101 article and video, Busting myths: a practical guide to countering science denial, orignally posted in the Conversation has been reposted by numerous websites throughout the world.

SkS Spotlights

The most anticipated papal letter for decades will be published in five languages on Thursday. It will call for an end to the ‘tyrannical’ exploitation of nature by mankind. Could it lead to a step-change in the battle against global warming?

Explosive intervention by Pope Francis set to transform climate change debate by John Vidal, Observer/Guardian, June 13, 2015 

Coming Soon on SkS

• The record heat of 2015 (John Abraham)
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Christiana Figueres (Leo Hickman)
• 2015 SkS News Bulletin #4: Pope Francis and Climate Change (John Hartz)
• Video: scientists simulate the climate of The Hobbit's Middle Earth (Dana)
• 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #25A (John Hartz)
• Explainer: the models that help us predict climate change (Kamal Puri, Aurel Moise, Robert Colman)
• Secretive donors gave US climate denial groups $125m over three years (Suzanne Goldenberg & Helena Bengtsson)
• 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #25B (John Hartz)
• 2015 SkS Weekly Digest #25 (John Hartz)

Poster of the Week

SkS Week in Review 

• 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #24B by John Hartz
• 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #24A by John Hartz
• Busting myths: a practical guide to countering science denial by John Cook
• Climate meme debunked as the ‘tropospheric hot spot’ is found by Steve Sherwood
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Thomas Stocker by Roz Pidcock
• Factcheck: Is climate change ‘helping Africa’? by Robert McSweeney & Roz Pidcock
• 2015 SkS News Bulletin #3: NOAA Updates Global Temperature Record by John Hartz
• What you need to know about the NOAA global warming faux pause paper by Dana
• 2015 SkS Weekly Digest #23 by John Hartz

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