{"id":2091,"date":"2013-05-17T14:38:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T13:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2013-06-27T16:00:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T15:00:31","slug":"one-thing-we-have-learnt-this-week-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=2091","title":{"rendered":"One thing we have learnt this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Escalator_2012_500.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2093\" title=\"Skeptical science animation click on it to see it change.\" alt=\"Escalator_2012_500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Escalator_2012_500-300x204.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"userContent\">The weather has been unseasonably cold.\u00a0 More like April than May. \u00a0 This has led to some people getting a bit confused between climate and weather&#8230;\u00a0 The sceptics have said for many years that warming has stopped (land temperatures).\u00a0 First this is not true.\u00a0 They cherry pick data, pic<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">king out hot years such as 1998.\u00a0 They also concentrate on <em>recent<\/em> data.\u00a0 This ignores a long term trend.\u00a0 As a scientist you always need to have a maximum amount of data to make a judgement not just over ten years worth, ignoring that which went inconveniently before.\u00a0 Whilst it does seem to be accepted that the land temperature increase has slowed down, but it has not stopped.\u00a0 Second, it ignores the warming trend of the oceans this is where most of the energy is going since most of the sun&#8217;s energy falls on water.\u00a0 We can see this effect on the Arctic sea ice which is possibly having some very bad effects on our weather in the Northern Hemisphere.\u00a0 Lastly it ignores acidification of the Oceans which has very bad environmental effects and on glaciers which are still melting (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chasingice?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chasingice?fref=ts<\/a>).\u00a0 But as we wrote in our book there are other reasons to break our addiction to fossil fuels apart from climate anyway.\u00a0 For more background see&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skepticalscience.com%2Fgraphics.php%3Fg%3D47&amp;h=aAQFNHzMZ&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">http:\/\/www.skepticalscience.com\/graphics.php?g=47<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The weather has been unseasonably cold.\u00a0 More like April than May. \u00a0 This has led to some people getting a bit confused between climate and weather&#8230;\u00a0 The sceptics have said for many years that warming has stopped (land temperatures).\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=2091\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-thing-we-have-learnt-this-week"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is cold weather an indication climate change is not real?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cold weather is not the same as climate. 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