I posted a comment at Curry’s blog. Namely this:
Tamino | November 1, 2011 at 9:43 am | Reply
Judith Curry, you have made the following statements:
“Our data show the pause”
“There is no scientific basis for saying that warming hasn’t stopped”
“There has been a lag/slowdown/whatever you want to call it in the rate of temperature increase since 1998”
Clearly you’ve read my post on the subject, in which I laid out the scientific basis for saying that warming hasn’t stopped. It consisted of actual data analysis, using exactly the data you refer to (from the Berkeley team).
You stated explicity that warming has stopped, your latest is vague enough to be satisfied by “slowdown” but the first two say “pause” and “stopped.” Either way — slowdown or stop — you need to provide some actual evidence that the trend has changed. The one thing that nobody has yet seen, is your scientific basis for any of these claims.
Question #1: Do you still maintain the above statements? No ambiguous answers, please, it’s yes-or-no for each statement.
Question #2: If any answer to #1 is “yes,” then what’s your scientific basis for claiming that the trend post-1998 (or post-2001 or whatever) has changed?
Incidentally, someone commented on my original post:
Michael | November 1, 2011 at 2:31 pm | Reply | EditTamino,
A response from Curry popped up very breifly.
Judith said that she had no idea what you were asking and couldn’t understand your “screed” of a post.
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