Sand4x105
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This is from Jim Johnstone
"What we found was the somewhat surprising degree to which the winds can explain all the wiggles in the temperature curve,"
said lead author Jim Johnstone, who did the work while a climatologist at the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean at the University of Washington.
"So clearly, there are other factors stronger than the greenhouse forcing that is affecting those temperatures," he added.
The study released by the online edition of the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences does not question global warming, but argues there is evidence that in at least one place, local winds are a more important factor explaining ocean warming than greenhouse gases.
It was greeted with skepticism by several mainstream climate scientists, who questioned how the authors could claim changes in wind direction and velocity were natural and unrelated to climate change.
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Study-links-changing-winds-to-warming-in-Pacific-5772583.php
Junk science study?
"What we found was the somewhat surprising degree to which the winds can explain all the wiggles in the temperature curve,"
said lead author Jim Johnstone, who did the work while a climatologist at the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean at the University of Washington.
"So clearly, there are other factors stronger than the greenhouse forcing that is affecting those temperatures," he added.
The study released by the online edition of the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences does not question global warming, but argues there is evidence that in at least one place, local winds are a more important factor explaining ocean warming than greenhouse gases.
It was greeted with skepticism by several mainstream climate scientists, who questioned how the authors could claim changes in wind direction and velocity were natural and unrelated to climate change.
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Study-links-changing-winds-to-warming-in-Pacific-5772583.php
Junk science study?