25 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury 12 Mar \ parent \ on: Tough Questions for Libertarians 1/15 libertarian
That's the part that I was asking about, though -- the warming trend stopped?
Yes, at least according to the official data.
I was studying atmospheric physics around this time. One of my professors was giving a general audience style presentation about global warming that was explaining the prevailing models. One of the points he made was showing that without anthropogenic warming the models showed flat or even declining temperatures, which meant that any warming was evidence of anthropogenic warming.
The fact that he and other climate scientists didn't reevaluate their stance on anthropogenic warming when the warming trend stopped was my first inclination that something other than pure science was going on. As a big psychology guy, I'm sure you're not surprised that scientists don't easily discard preferred hypotheses even when they're falsified, but as an idealistic scientist in training I expected conformity to the ideal of the scientific method.
Here's a national temperature graph from the EPA.Imagine looking at this before about 2015. You'd see a spike in the late 90's followed by a downward trend.
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