1.0Climate Change Dispatchhttps://climatechangedispatch.comThomas Richardhttps://climatechangedispatch.com/author/ccdeditor/The Pacific "Blob" And The Global Warming Pauserich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="6if4UDTya1"><a href="https://climatechangedispatch.com/the-pacific-blob-and-the-global-warming-pause/">The Pacific “Blob” And The Global Warming Pause</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://climatechangedispatch.com/the-pacific-blob-and-the-global-warming-pause/embed/#?secret=6if4UDTya1" width="600" height="338" title="“The Pacific “Blob” And The Global Warming Pause” — Climate Change Dispatch" data-secret="6if4UDTya1" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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Something strange is happening to the north Pacific. It is setting sea temperature records, scrambling weather patterns, damaging ecosystems, and nudging up the global temperature. The scientists who have observed it call it after what it looks like on temperature maps of the Pacific – behold the "blob." The warmth of 2015 so far and the expectation that it will get even warmer has already given rise to headlines that the "pause" has ended and that global warming has resumed. However one does not follow from the other. The "blob" and the El Nino are weather events not climate, natural fluctuations and not long-term trends. Their contribution to world temperature does not represent a resumption of long term anthropogenic warming in the same way that the cool year of 2007 did not represent the onset of a rapid decline in global temperature. --David Whitehouse, Global Warming Policy Forum, 6 September 2015https://climatechangedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/images_pics8_Screen-Shot-2015-09-04-at-13.41.59-300x251.jpg