Elinda wrote:
gbaji, global temperatures have trended up.
Only if you keep increasing the length of the trend period. Temperatures have been trending downward for the last 10 years. If you've been paying attention to the language, in the early 2000s it was "the last 5 years are the hottest on record", then by the late 2000s, it was "the last 10 years are the hottest on record", and in the last couple years it's changed to "the last decade (meaning 2000 to 2010) was the hottest on record". What this should indicate is that global temperatures peaked sometime in the early 2000s. Which is exactly what happened.
I'll also point out that this is more or less exactly what some of us global warming skeptics predicted and directly contradicts the temperature predictions generated by applying global warming models. But let's not let the whole "test your hypothesis" part of science get in the way.
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It's linguistically correct to call it climate change, it's more specific and still correct to call it global warming.
It's linguistically misleading to call it "climate change" because the definition of "climate change" varies based on which organization you're interacting with. Calling it global warming is incorrect because even those who originally supported "global warming" have realized that the globe isn't actually warming anymore. That's why they changed the label.
Edited, Nov 13th 2013 2:20pm by gbaji