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Is this the last gasp from the Climate Change Authority? : Comments
By Don Aitkin, published 4/3/2014Unsurprisingly, the Government has taken little notice, and in fact you won't find a reference to the report on the Department of Environment website - or, indeed, any reference to the CCA itself.
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This paper states that the temperature pause is a product of a reduced TSI which masks the real temperature increase due to AGW.
Can we stop and think about this? Stauning says CO2 caused temperature rise is continuing but the measured temperature is falling due to a reduced TSI!
So the cooling [!] effect of the reduced TSI negates completely the heating effect of CO2.
Seriously?
This takes me back to Foster and Rahmstorf paper:
http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/6/4/044022
Among other natural confounding factors F&R removed TSI and found a 'pure' AGW temperature signal of 0.014 to 0.018 K yr−1.
The nonsense of this is that this 'pure' signal was constant from 1979 but during this time CO2 was increasing exponentially as it still is.
This means that for temperature to be flat and even cooling the natural warming factors including TSI must be also DECREASING exponentially!
TSI is not decreasing exponentially and this theory about TSI, along with Trenberth's and England's winds and Santer's volcanoes and aerosols as explanations for the decline in temperature, is contradicted.