Since the Daily Mail is a British thing and the latest form of entertainment in Britain is Libel Tourism, I won't say to you that the Daily Mail is a rag full of lies and deceit. Instead, I'll let you be the judge.
These studies:
Decline in solar output unlikely to offset global warming
23 January 2012 - New research has found that solar output is likely to reduce over the next 90 years but that will not substantially delay expected increases in global temperatures caused by greenhouse gases.
Carried out by the Met Office and the University of Reading, the study establishes the most likely changes in the Sun's activity and looks at how this could affect near-surface temperatures on Earth.
It found that the most likely outcome was that the Sun's output would decrease up to 2100, but this would only cause a reduction in global temperatures of 0.08 °C. This compares to an expected warming of about 2.5 °C over the same period due to greenhouse gases (according to the IPCC's B2 scenario for greenhouse gas emissions that does not involve efforts to mitigate emissions).
Gareth Jones, a climate change detection scientist with the Met Office, said: "This research shows that the most likely change in the Sun's output will not have a big impact on global temperatures or do much to slow the warming we expect from greenhouse gases.
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4 January 2012 - 2012 is expected to be around 0.48 °C warmer than the long-term (1961-1990) global average of 14.0 °C, with a predicted likely range of between 0.34 °C and 0.62 °C, according to the Met Office annual global temperature forecast.
The middle of this range would place 2012 within the top 10 warmest years in a series which goes back to 1850.
The prediction follows provisional figures published by the Met Office and University of East Anglia last month which showed that 2011 saw temperatures 0.36 °C above the long term average and is currently ranked the 11th warmest year on record in the HadCRUT3 temperature dataset.
At the same time the World Meteorological Organization published a global average temperature anomaly of 0.41 deg C based on an average of the three international global average temperature datasets1.
Both the global average temperature value from HadCRUT3 and the WMO falls within the range predicted by the Met Office for 2011 of between 0.28 °C and 0.60 °C, with a most likely value of 0.44 °C above the long term average. This is consistent with the Met Office forecast which indicated that 2011 was unlikely to be a record year.
What the Daily Mail said:
Forget global warming - it's Cycle 25 we need to worry about (and if NASA scientists are right the Thames will be freezing over again)
The supposed 'consensus' on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years.
The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century.
Based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations, the data was issued last week without fanfare by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit. It confirms that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997....Meanwhile, leading climate scientists yesterday told The Mail on Sunday that, after emitting unusually high levels of energy throughout the 20th Century, the sun is now heading towards a 'grand minimum' in its output, threatening cold summers, bitter winters and a shortening of the season available for growing food.
Solar output goes through 11-year cycles, with high numbers of sunspots seen at their peak.
We are now at what should be the peak of what scientists call 'Cycle 24' - which is why last week's solar storm resulted in sightings of the aurora borealis further south than usual. But sunspot numbers are running at less than half those seen during cycle peaks in the 20th Century.Analysis by experts at NASA and the University of Arizona - derived from magnetic-field measurements 120,000 miles beneath the sun's surface - suggest that Cycle 25, whose peak is due in 2022, will be a great deal weaker still.
According to a paper issued last week by the Met Office, there is a 92 per cent chance that both Cycle 25 and those taking place in the following decades will be as weak as, or weaker than, the 'Dalton minimum' of 1790 to 1830. In this period, named after the meteorologist John Dalton, average temperatures in parts of Europe fell by 2C.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2093264/Forget-global-wa…
I haven't seen the original research report, but then again, neither has David Rose of the Daily Mail, it would appear. Given the British Love of Libel Tourism I won't say that David Rose is a big fat liar and should not be taken seriously as a journalist. I'll let you be the judge of that!
Here's another post examining the Daily Mail nonsense.
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There's reason we call it the Daily Fail (or, indeed, the Daily Heil).
The sad thing is this rag has one of the biggest circulations of all the UK papers and it's considered to be the "quality" tabloid...
Even if we did go back to LIA temperatures, the Thames wouldn't freeze over. Since they built the embankments the river flows too quickly.
Yes, Rose has form for getting science wrong. But it's ok, it is only his opinion so no complaint to the PCC that he is flat out lying will work.
Pick a political position, find a scientist that supports it and, bang; you are right, everyone else is wrong. Blinders on, full speed ahead.
Think perhaps a bit of a change to your logo tag line:
"Personal opinion as science - Science as personal opinion"
Bottom line is humans just don't live long enough to see real climate change. Whatever climate you are born in is the same climate you will die in - it ain't gonna' change that much in one's lifetime...(unless of course you move some where else.)
Neutral Guy: http://goo.gl/lZJXP
Bottom line, you're wrong.
The Mail, surprise surprise, mis-characterizes the referenced material, so much so, the Met responds:
âHowever, what is absolutely clear is that we have continued to see a trend of warming, with the decade of 2000-2009 being clearly the warmest in the instrumental record going back to 1850."
http://bit.ly/met-schools-mail
No surprise this is from Rose. He gets things wrong quite consistently. Tim Lambert at Deltoid has a whole series of posts on Rose's errors comparing what Rose says the scientist said, and what the scientists actually said. As well, what the scientist has to say about what Rose said they said.
Since my parents have always read the rag, I do my very best to avoid it.
My wife picked up a free copy in a coffee shop, and as I flicked through it, my eye caught the line 'Dr Judith Curry, one of America's most respected climate scientists'. Add to that a quote from Benny Pieser and the fact that its the Daily Mail, and you just know that its an epic fail, without the hassle of actually reading any of it.
"The Daily Mail" got it wrong? Quelle surprise! This is a paper which often does not have named reporters, preferring to use the tagline "by Daily Mail Reporter". Its science and technology section is awful. Its news is slanted to its target audience, who might be best defined as "Frightened Little Englanders who have never acknowledged the loss of the Empire". And they dispprove of everything and everybody that happened or was born after 1950.
At one time they reported that Switzerland was a monarchy. This must have come as news to the Swiss, who have had devolved cantonal governments since the foundation of the Swiss Confederation(The Old confederacy) in 1291.
The first paragraph in the British Meteorological Office's response is as follows:
"This article includes numerous errors in the reporting of published peer reviewed science undertaken by the Met Office Hadley Centre and for Mr. Rose to suggest that the latest global temperatures available show no warming in the last 15 years is entirely misleading".
Par for the course for that rag, then.