Onward marches the Great Pause
Posted: December 4, 2014 Filed under: Alarmism Debunked, Climate Change, COP20, Global Warming Stasis, IPCC, UN | Tags: AGW, COP20, COP20Lima, Global Warming "Pause", The Great Pause Leave a commentWatts Up With That?
Global temperature update: the Pause is now 18 years 2 months
Guest essay by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
Since October 1996 there has been no global warming at all (Fig. 1). This month’s RSS temperature plot pushes up the period without any global warming from 18 years 1 month to 18 years 2 months (indeed, very nearly 18 years 3 months). Will this devastating chart be displayed anywhere at the Lima conference? Don’t bet on it.
Figure 1. The least-squares linear-regression trend on the RSS satellite monthly global mean surface temperature anomaly dataset shows no global warming for 18 years 2 months since October 1996.
The hiatus period of 18 years 2 months, or 218 months, is the farthest back one can go in the RSS satellite temperature record and still show a sub-zero trend.
What will the chart look like this time next year, at the beginning of the…
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