Can The Climate System “Mask” Heat?

The use of the term “masking” with respect to radiative forcing, is an incorrect description of the science. Heating from the greenhouse gases, if balanced by cooling from aerosols, results in no heat accumulation within the climate system. If the aerosols were not permitted to enter the atmosphere, yet the well-mixed greenhouse gases continued to accumulate, global warming would result, but there would be no concealed accumulated heat to suddenly enter the climate system, once the aerosols are eliminated. There is no “masking” of heat.

From the Office of Campus Sustainability | Michigan State University

Following on last year’s successful “Community Forum on Climate Change” we have organized a “Teach-In on Global Warming” as part of a nationally organized effort to bring people together in the first 100 days of the new administration to discuss and learn about the complexity of the climate change challenge.

YouTube - Video Letter to Congress

This is a video letter created by the outreach staff for the National Teach-In on Global Warming Solutions, and directed to Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, and Representative Kurt Schrader.

These appear to be well-meaning people who don't have the faintest clue about natural climate variability.