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From our old blog (9\/7\/2014) that was tragically hidden from view by the Gods of Google.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Phil Jones \u2013 CRU emails \u2013 5th July,\u00a0<\/em>2005<\/em><\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/em>The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998<\/em><\/strong>. OK it has but it is only 7 years of data and it isn\u2019t statistically significant\u2026.\u201dDr. Phil Jones \u2013 CRU emails \u2013 7th May,\u00a0<\/em>2009<\/em><\/strong>\u2018Bottom line: the \u2018<\/em>no upward trend<\/em><\/strong>\u2019 has to continue for a total of\u00a0<\/em>15 years before we get worried<\/em><\/strong>.\u2019__________________<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Dr. Judith L. Lean \u2013 Geophysical Research Letters \u2013 15 Aug\u00a0<\/em>2009<\/em><\/strong>\u201c\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This lack of overall warming<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is analogous to the period from 2002 to 2008 when decreasing solar irradiance also countered much of the anthropogenic warming\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Dr. Kevin Trenberth \u2013 CRU emails \u2013 12 Oct.\u00a0<\/em>2009<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWell, I have my own article on\u00a0<\/em>where the heck is global warming<\/em><\/strong>\u2026..The fact is that\u00a0<\/em>we can\u2019t account for the lack of warming<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0at the moment and it is a travesty that we can\u2019t.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Mojib Latif \u2013 Spiegel \u2013 19th November\u00a0<\/em>2009<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt present, however, the\u00a0<\/em>warming is taking a break<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d\u2026\u2026.\u201dThere can be no argument about that,\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

.Jochem Marotzke \u2013 Spiegel \u2013 19th November\u00a0<\/em>2009<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt cannot be denied that this is one of the hottest issues in the scientific community,\u201d\u2026.\u201d<\/em>We don\u2019t really know why this stagnation is taking place<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0at this point.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Phil Jones \u2013 BBC \u2013 13th February\u00a0<\/em>2010<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cI\u2019m a scientist trying to measure temperature. If I registered that the climate has been\u00a0cooling\u00a0I\u2019d say so. But it hasn\u2019t until recently\u00a0\u2013 and then barely at all. The trend is a warming trend.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Phil Jones \u2013 BBC \u2013 13th February\u00a0<\/em>2010<\/em><\/strong>[Q] B \u2013 <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/em>Do you agree that from 1995<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0to the present there has been\u00a0<\/em>no statistically-significant global warming<\/em><\/strong>\u201d[A] \u201c<\/em>Yes<\/em><\/strong>, but only just\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Shaowu Wang et al \u2013 Advances in Climate Change Research \u2013<\/em>2010<\/em><\/strong>\u201c\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decade of 1999-2008 is still the warmest of the last 30 years, though the\u00a0<\/em>global temperature increment is near zero<\/em><\/strong>;\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. B. G. Hunt \u2013 Climate Dynamics \u2013 February\u00a0<\/em>2011<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cControversy continues to prevail concerning the reality of anthropogenically-induced climatic warming. One of the principal issues is the\u00a0<\/em>cause of the hiatus<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0in the current global warming trend.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Robert K. Kaufmann \u2013 PNAS \u2013 2nd June\u00a0<\/em>2011<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026..it has been unclear why\u00a0<\/em>global surface temperatures did not rise<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0between 1998 and 2008\u2026..\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Gerald A. Meehl \u2013 Nature Climate Change \u2013 18th September<\/em>2011<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere have been decades, such as 2000\u20132009, when the observed globally averaged surface-temperature time series shows little increase or even a slightly negative trend1 (a\u00a0<\/em>hiatus<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0period)\u2026.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Met Office Blog \u2013 Dave Britton (10:48:21) \u2013 14 October\u00a0<\/em>2012<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe agree with Mr Rose that there has been only a\u00a0<\/em>very small amount of warming<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0in the 21st Century. As stated in our response, this is\u00a0<\/em>0.05 degrees Celsius since 1997<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0equivalent to 0.03 degrees Celsius per decade. \u201dSource:\u00a0<\/em>metofficenews.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/14\/met-office-in-the-media-14-october-2012<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. James Hansen \u2013 NASA GISS \u2013 15 January\u00a0<\/em>2013<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe 5-year mean\u00a0<\/em>global temperature has been flat for a decade<\/em><\/strong>, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slowdown in the growth rate of the net climate forcing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Doug Smith \u2013 Met Office \u2013 18 January\u00a0<\/em>2013<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe exact\u00a0<\/em>causes of the temperature standstill are not yet understood<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d says climate researcher Doug Smith from the Met Office.[Translated by Philipp Mueller from Spiegel Online]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Virginie Guemas \u2013 Nature Climate Change \u2013 7 April\u00a0<\/em>2013<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026Despite a sustained production of anthropogenic greenhouse gases, the\u00a0<\/em>Earth\u2019s mean near-surface temperature paused\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>its rise during the 2000\u20132010 period\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Judith Curry \u2013 House of Representatives Subcommittee on Environment \u2013 25 April\u00a0<\/em>2013<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201d If the climate shifts hypothesis is correct, then\u00a0<\/em>the current flat trend in global surface temperatures<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0may continue for another decade or two,\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Hans von Storch \u2013 Spiegel \u2013 20 June\u00a0<\/em>2013<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026<\/em>the increase over the last 15 years<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0was just 0.06 degrees Celsius (0.11 degrees Fahrenheit) \u2014 a value\u00a0<\/em>very close to zero<\/em><\/strong>\u2026.If things continue as they have been, in five years, at the latest, we will need to acknowledge that something is fundamentally wrong with our climate models\u2026.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Masahiro Watanabe \u2013 Geophysical Research Letters \u2013 28 June\u00a0<\/em>2013<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe weakening of k commonly found in GCMs seems to be an inevitable response of the climate system to global warming, suggesting the recovery from\u00a0<\/em>hiatus<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0in coming decades.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Met Office \u2013 July\u00a0<\/em>2013<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/em>The recent pause in global warming<\/em><\/strong>, part 3: What are the implications for projections of future warming?\u2026\u2026\u2026..Executive summary <\/em>The recent pause in global surface temperature rise<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0does not materially alter the risks of substantial warming of the Earth by the end of this century. \u201dSource:\u00a0<\/em>metoffice.gov.uk\/media\/pdf\/3\/r\/Paper3_Implications_for_projections.pdf<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Rowan Sutton \u2013 Independent \u2013 22 July\u00a0<\/em>2013<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSome people call it a slow-down, some call it a hiatus, some people call it a pause. The\u00a0<\/em>global average surface temperature has not increased substantially over the last 10 to 15 years<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Kevin Trenberth \u2013 NPR \u2013 23 August\u00a0<\/em>2013<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/em>They probably can\u2019t go on much for much longer than maybe 20 years, and what happens at the end of these hiatus periods<\/em><\/strong>, is suddenly there\u2019s a big jump [in temperature] up to a whole new level and you never go back to that previous level again,\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Yu Kosaka et. al. \u2013 Nature \u2013 28 August\u00a0<\/em>2013<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRecent global-warming hiatus\u00a0tied to equatorial Pacific surface cooling despite the continued increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, the annual-mean global temperature has not risen in the twenty-first century\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Anastasios Tsonis \u2013 Daily Telegraph \u2013 8 September\u00a0<\/em>2013<\/em><\/strong>\\<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are already in a cooling trend, which I think will continue for the next 15 years at least. There is no doubt\u00a0<\/em>the warming of the 1980s and 1990s has stopped<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Kevin E. Trenberth \u2013 Nature News Feature \u2013 15 January\u00a0<\/em>2014<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe\u00a0<\/em>1997 to \u201998 El Ni\u00f1o event\u00a0was a trigger for the changes in the Pacific, and I think that\u2019s\u00a0very probably the beginning of the hiatus<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d says Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Gabriel Vecchi \u2013 Nature News Feature \u2013 15 January\u00a0<\/em>2014<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA few years ago you saw the\u00a0<\/em>hiatus, but it could be dismissed because it was well within the noise,\u201d says Gabriel Vecchi, a climate scientist\u2026\u201cNow\u00a0it\u2019s something to explain<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d\u2026..<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Matthew England \u2013 ABC Science \u2013 10 February\u00a0<\/em>2014<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven though\u00a0<\/em>there is this hiatus in this surface average temperature<\/em><\/strong>, we\u2019re still getting record heat waves, we\u2019re still getting harsh bush fires\u2026..it shows we shouldn\u2019t take any comfort from this\u00a0<\/em>plateau in global average temperatures<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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