Global warming projections fail

BBC:

This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.

But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.

And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.

So what on Earth is going on?

Climate change sceptics, who passionately and consistently argue that man's influence on our climate is overstated, say they saw it coming.

They argue that there are natural cycles, over which we have no control, that dictate how warm the planet is. But what is the evidence for this?

During the last few decades of the 20th Century, our planet did warm quickly.

Sceptics argue that the warming we observed was down to the energy from the Sun increasing. After all 98% of the Earth's warmth comes from the Sun.

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There is much more, but that statement about 98% percent of Earth's warmth comes from the Sun is telling. If we control only two percent or less then all the windmills we could build will have little impact on the temperature.

But the cold trend is harder to ignore. In this part of Texas the temperature has been unseasonably cool for days several times dropping into the 50s. When baseball games are postponed for snow that is a hint that it is getting colder.

The Christian Science Monitor has more on the global cooling.