Cancún Propaganda Piñata: Part 1

The UK’s Met Office is full of bad news for the planet, just in time for the Mexican meeting on melting.

Global warming is accelerating and slowing down. At the same time.

The Met finds that warming is happening faster than ever because they found a new way to fiddle the numbers:

The Met Office report includes a new study which shows that sea surface temperatures were higher than initially thought because of a change in the way the temperatures were measured after 2000. The new analysis significantly increases the warming scientists think was seen globally over the past decade.

The same report explains away a slower warming trend:

…the gradual rise in temperatures over the last 30 years is slowing slightly. Global warming since the 1970s has been 0.16C (0.3F) but the rise in the last decade was just 0.05C (0.09F), according to the Met Office.

What fortunate turn of events may be saving us from apocalyptic milder weather? Coal power, that’s what:

One of the major factors is pollution over Asia, where the huge growth in coal-fired power stations mean aerosols like sulphur are being pumped into the air. This reflects sunlight, cooling the land surface temperature.

Wait, what? The evil CO2-spewing coal that causes global warming also saves us from global warming?

Is there nothing coal can’t do?

Cancun begins on Monday, a new tag is in the left sidebar and I’ll be bringing the best of the nonsense as often as possible.

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