Seth Borenstein, environmental reporter for the AP, writes about NOAA's recent announcement that this October was the hottest on record. October is the 5th month in 2014 to be the hottest on record, which means — in the words of NOAA's Deke Arndt — that, "It is becoming pretty clear that 2014 will end up as the warmest year on record."
If it's the hottest year on record — hotter than 1998, which was an El Niño year — then that will certainly quiet the deniers who harp on the pause, right? Because how can you possibly say there's a pause if it's hotter? Without any legitimate way to claim warming has stopped, what might we look forward to hearing from deniers?
Paul Homewood's blog provides a glimpse of what's likely to come. Instead of using NASA and NOAA data, which show record warming by taking into account both air and ocean temperatures, Paul decides instead to double down on denial by looking only at RSS and UAH atmospheric temperature data to argue that it's not the hottest month or year. Paul, of course, fails to mention the scope of the RSS and UAH measurements or the fact that 90% of the heat goes into the ocean!
Which, yet again, proves why they're not skeptics but deniers. When the data says something they don't like, they don't update their theories, they deny the data. So don't expect them to drop the pause any time soon.
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