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Articles tagged with: Natural variability
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Earth’s surface continues to warm due to greenhouse gas emissions, contrary to claims by Christopher Monckton in Watts Up With That
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“...Seven and a half years have passed since there was any trend in global warming at all” If global warming was caused by human emissions, temperature would rise at a steady rate
SOURCE: Christopher Monckton, Watts Up With That
Published: 11 Apr 2022
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry incorrectly claims CO2 is not primary cause of climate change
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Most likely the primary control knob [on climate change] is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in.
SOURCE: Rick Perry, CNBC
Published: 20 Jun 2017
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Natural variability can not explain modern global warming, as Heartland Institute report claims
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Neither the rate nor the magnitude of the reported late twentieth century surface warming (1979–2000) lay outside normal natural variability.
SOURCE: Craig Idso, Robert Carter, S. Fred Singer, Heartland Institute
Published: 30 May 2017
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Daily Mail claim about 2016 global temperature record is misleading
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El Niño drove record highs in global temperatures suggesting rise may not be down to man-made emissions.
SOURCE: David Rose, The Daily Mail
Published: 02 Dec 2016
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