‘Global Warming’ Stopped 15 Years Ago


by Alex Newman
The
New American



Despite playing
a key role in advancing climate change hysteria, the United Kingdom’s
National Weather Service, known as the Met Office, quietly
released
a report last week conceding that so-called “global
warming” actually stopped more than 15 years ago. The startling
admission shows once again that United Nations theories and climate
models are wildly inaccurate at best, experts say, meaning multi-trillion
dollar schemes to deal with alleged human-caused “climate change”
are at the very least severely misguided.

According to the latest UK Met Office report, first
reported by the
Daily Mail, there has been no noticeable
increase in global temperatures since early 1997. The alleged warming
trend supposedly observed from 1980 to 1996 was about as long as
the current “plateau” period, the paper reported. Prior to that,
climate scientists admit, global temperatures had been stable or
dropping for decades, a fact that prompted previous generations
of climate alarmists to sound the alarm about the supposed dangers
of man-made “global cooling.”

“Climate models are very complex, but they are imperfect and incomplete.
Natural variability [the impact of factors such as long-term temperature
cycles in the oceans and the output of the sun] has been shown over
the past two decades to have a magnitude that dominates the greenhouse
warming effect,” Georgia Tech climate science department chief Professor
Judith Curry told
the Daily Mail. “It is becoming increasingly apparent that
our attribution of warming since 1980 and future projections of
climate change needs to consider natural internal variability as
a factor of fundamental importance.”

The Met Office temperature data report is known as Hadcrut
4
because it is compiled by the Met Office’s Hadley Center and
the now-disgraced Climatic Research Unit at the University of East
Anglia – the institution at the center of the infamous
ClimateGate scandal
that exposed so-called “climate scientists”
fudging numbers, covering up contradictory data, conspiring to attack
dissenting experts, and unlawfully trying to evade freedom of information
requests. Unsurprisingly, the CRU’s discredited boss, Phil Jones,
downplayed the significance of the latest findings.

Despite having claimed in 2009 that if there were no warming for
15 years it would be time for climate alarmists to “get worried,”
Jones now says 15 years is not a long enough span to draw any conclusions.
At least 20 years will be needed before the climate hysteria can
be reconsidered, the controversial climate activist – he styles
himself a scientist despite his unabashed activism – told the
Daily Mail, adding that the ongoing lack of global warming
“could go on for a while.” He apparently still thinks this decade
will be warmer than the last, though he admitted that the wild climate
models predicting doom were based on multiple uncertainties.

“We don’t fully understand how to input things like changes in the
oceans, and because we don’t fully understand it you could say that
natural variability is now working to suppress the warming,” Jones
admitted to the paper, apparently acknowledging what skeptical climate
scientists have been attempting to convey for years. “We don’t know
what natural variability is doing.”

Also in 2009, meanwhile, the alarmist Met Office predicted that
three of the next five years would set new world records for warming.
Now that the data has proven the wildly alarmist prediction false,
however, a spokesperson for the agency had no comment on it. Still,
the Met Office, like Jones – both depending largely on taxpayer
funding that will dry up if and when climate hysteria disappears
– also tried to downplay the latest data. “Choosing a starting
or end point on short-term scales can be very misleading,” a Met
Office spokesperson said. “Climate change can only be detected from
multi-decadal timescales due to the inherent variability in the
climate system.”

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October
27, 2012

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