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It does seem to get questioned quite a lot, if by people who don't know wha t they are talking about.
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But the fact do fit the theory. The natural philosopher has a few pseudo-fa cts that he likes to advance - such as anthropogenic global warming having stopped dead in 1998, 0.4 degrees Celcius ago - but this is delusional nons ense.
I wonder how the natural philosopher thinks that that might happen. He prob ably takes Anthony Watts seriously, and imagines that it could done by pain ting Stevenson boxes with the wrong sort of white paint.
The El Nino/La Nina alternation happens every few years, which makes it tem porary. The Multidecadal Atlantic Oscillation is slower, but it also come a nd goes.
Both are entirely real and have been going on since long before anthropogen ic global warming as an issue. The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation doesn' t have any obvious effect on fish catches so it wasn't identified until 199
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but it was clearly identifiable in historical records
How?
Pinatubo didn't scatter "dust" in to the atmosphere. It injected sulphur di oxide (SO2) into the stratosphere where it oxidised to SO3 and reacted with water to form very small droplets of sulphuric acid, which scattered some incoming sunlight back into space, which dropped the average temperature of the earth by 0.6 degrees Celcius.
used the Mount Pinatubo cooling to test model predictions of the climate fe edback from water vapour. They passed with flying colours.
The doublethink seems to have been entirely in your head. Perhaps the artic le you read was less marvellous than you thought. English-language science journalists are frequently rather bad at their job - and their output is ra rely peer-reviewed.
"Science" is a major scientific journal and it's articles are peer-reviewed .