Are we heading for a mini ice age?

[BlasterBates]

My German is a bit rusty, could you tell us the timescales that Dr Latif was talking about?

As you value his opinion, you may also be interested in this recent interview

Exclusive interview with Dr. Mojib Latif, the man who confused the NY Times and New Scientist, the man who moved George Will and math-challenged Morano to extreme disinformation | ThinkProgress

Mojib Latif is often on German TV and he said a year a two ago that global warming would pause for the next 20 - 30 years, ie that there was a natural cooling cycle driven by the oceans, that would negate Global Warming for 20 to 30 years I actually heard him say that.

But I fail to see how that has any relevance about what we were discussing. Presumably you googled the buzz word Mojib Latif and came up with that link that criticised Morano for misquoting him. Well I can only say the link contradicts what he was saying on TV .

Certainly Mojib has changed his tune since 2000 when he was predicting the warming to continue. Presumably he's reacting to the fact that there's been no warming since then.

In the 2000 article he categorically stated the warming would continue at the same rate with a probability of 95%; hence no more snow.

[pjclarke]

Mojib Latif is often on German TV and he said a year a two ago that global warming would pause for the next 20 - 30 years, ie that there was a natural cooling cycle driven by the oceans, that would negate Global Warming for 20 to 30 years I actually heard him say that.

Sure about that? Memory can play tricks.

A leading scientist has hit out at misleading newspaper reports that linked his research to claims that the current cold weather undermines the scientific case for manmade global warming.

Mojib Latif, a climate expert at the Leibniz Institute at Kiel University in Germany, said he "cannot understand" reports that used his research to question the scientific consensus on climate change.

He told the Guardian: "It comes as a surprise to me that people would try to use my statements to try to dispute the nature of global warming. I believe in manmade global warming. I have said that if my name was not Mojib Latif it would be global warming."

Leading climate scientist challenges Mail on Sunday's use of his research | Environment | The Guardian

In an interview back on October 1, Dr. Latif told me “we don’t trust our forecast beyond 2015″³ and “it is just as likely you’ll see accelerated warming” after then. Indeed, in his published research, rapid warming is all-but-inevitable over the next two decades. He told me, “you can’t miss the long-term warming trend” in the temperature record, which is “driven by the evolution of greenhouse gases.”

FoxNews, WattsUpWithThat push falsehood-filled Daily Mail article on global cooling that utterly misquotes, misrepresents work of Mojib Latif and NSIDC | ThinkProgress

[BlasterBates]

Sure about that? Memory can play tricks.



Leading climate scientist challenges Mail on Sunday's use of his research | Environment | The Guardian


FoxNews, WattsUpWithThat push falsehood-filled Daily Mail article on global cooling that utterly misquotes, misrepresents work of Mojib Latif and NSIDC | ThinkProgress

You seem to be off track. To be honest it's irrelevant to what he said in the Spiegel article.

You seem to be attacking Morano....so what.

Did anyone here quote Morano? no. Do we care? no

THis seems like another case of googling for buzzwords, and posting whatever you find regardless of what it's about.

[pjclarke]

In the 2000 article he categorically stated the warming would continue at the same rate with a probability of 95%; hence no more snow.

Der Spiegel is still a secondary source. We can settle this really easily, just find a primary source - a journal article, something written firsthand by a climate scientist, an IPCC projection, the Met Office or similar that predicted a snow free UK by now.

Good luck with that.