Ummm....are you REALLY sure you want to say this?
"Temperatures are clearly rising, but the past two years have not been warm enough to support the notion that we may be seeing an acceleration in the rate of global warming".
Because the evidence says you are WRONG.
From my article.
Unclothing the Emperor : Understanding “What’s Wrong” with our “Climate Paradigm”. Part 2
Zeke Hausfather wrote this for the NYT.
I Study Climate Change. The Data Is Telling Us Something New.
Where he stated.
“While natural weather patterns, including a growing El Niño event, are playing an important role, the record global temperatures we have experienced this year could not have occurred without the approximately 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.3 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming to date from human sources of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions.”
“While many experts have been cautious about acknowledging it, there is increasing evidence that global warming has accelerated over the past 15 years rather than continued at a gradual, steady pace. That acceleration means that the effects of climate change we are already seeing — extreme heat waves, wildfires, rainfall and sea level rise — will only grow more severe in the coming years.”
“I don’t make this claim lightly. Among my colleagues in climate science, there are sharp divisions on this question, and some aren’t convinced it’s happening.”
This is IMPORTANT.
Zeke Hausfather, isn’t just “some guy”.
Zeke Hausfather is the climate research lead at Stripe and a research scientist at Berkeley Earth. He is a MAJOR voice among the “Climate Moderates” like Michael Mann, Hannah Ritchie, and Christiana Figueres. The “Doomism is WORSE than Denial”, crowd of “mainstream” Climate Science.
What you are seeing, is the “surrender” of the MODERATE faction in Climate Science. What you are seeing, is analogous to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox.
While “holdouts”, like Michael Mann, will keep denying reality. The DEBATE is OVER.
The Moderates were WRONG.
Warming IS accelerating. The only question now is by how much.