“short records with uncertain forcings”

Chris Wallace is being excoriated for saying this:

Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday became the latest voice on the conservative network to repeat incorrect information about climate change, and suggested that it was time to “worry about global cooling now.”

During a segment about the economy on Fox News Sunday, former UBS CEO Robert Wolf noted that the economy was steadily improving in spite of a harsh winter that had hurt some businesses.

“I know people have talked about the bad winter,” Wallace agreed. “I’m wondering whether we need to worry about global cooling now.”

I saw the video, and he was making a snarky remark about the bad winter. How does that constitute “repeating incorrect information about climate change”?

And who gets to decide what information is “correct”?

Is this chart incorrect?

The latest explanation for that is that most of the heat is being absorbed by the oceans stated in terms of (I am not kidding) the number of Hiroshimas:

Previous estimates put the amount of heat accumulated by the world’s oceans over the past decade equivalent to about 4 Hiroshima atomic bomb detonations per second, on average, but Trenberth’s research puts the estimate equivalent to more than 6 detonations per second. Trenberth and Fasullo note that using their ocean heating estimate by itself would increase the equilibrium climate sensitivity estimate in the paper referenced by Ridley from 2°C to 2.5°C average global surface warming in response to a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and using other more widespread accepted values would bring the estimate in line with the standard value of 3°C. They thus note,

“Using short records with uncertain forcings of the Earth system that is not in equilibrium does not (yet) produce reliable estimates of climate sensitivity.”

Sounds like claptrap to me.

Well, at least they invoked Hiroshima and not Hitler…