British Researcher: No Global Warming In 18 Years

by JASmius

One more "inconvenient truth":

A British aristocrat has taken a swipe at activists and politicians who fan the fears of climate change as he claimed that recent research shows there's been no global warming for almost 18 years.

Lord Christopher Monckton announced on ClimateDepot.com that his scientific satellite data show the temperatures have remained fairly stable between October 1966 and August 2014, despite a rise in greenhouse gas emissions.

Calling it the "Great Pause," Monckton wrote, "It is becoming harder and harder to maintain that we face a 'climate crisis' caused by our past and present sins of emission," said Monckton."

Taking the least-squares linear-regression trend on Remote Sensing Systems' satellite-based monthly global mean lower-troposphere temperature dataset, there has been no global warming — none at all — for at least 215 months."

"This is the longest continuous period without any warming in the global instrumental temperature record since the satellites first watched in 1979. It has endured for half the satellite temperature record. Yet the Great Pause coincides with a continuing, rapid increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration."

Facts don't matter 'till the hype runs out.  That's where hate comes in.  And when that runs out?

Don't be silly, hate is an inexhaustible resource.  But Lord Monckton doesn't seem to care:

"The Great Pause is a growing embarrassment to those who had told us with 'substantial confidence' that the science was settled and the debate over," Monckton wrote. "Nature has other ideas.

"Though more than two dozen more or less implausible excuses for the Pause are appearing in nervous reviewed journals, the possibility that the Pause is occurring because the computer models are simply wrong about the sensitivity of temperature to man-made greenhouse gases can no longer be dismissed."

Sure they can.  Just not logically, rationally, or factually.  That's why it's no longer subject to debate, and "de-carbonization" being forced on us by Executive decree anyway.  The former Margaret Thatcher advisor doesn't even realize that he is effectively delivering the Left's taunts that it's too late for the Right to stop the "fundamental transformation" they've already clinched.

At least we can fart in their faces on the way to the cattlecars.  Which will make Lord Monckton's buggy eyes water something awful.