Global Warming Has Stopped

According to scientists being quoted by (of all the unlikely media places) The London Telegraph. Their article entitled “Global warming at a standstill, new Met Office figures show,” is reproduced, in part, below.

The Met Office has downgraded its forecast for global warming to suggest that by 2017 temperatures will have remained about the same for two decades.

A new scientific model has revised previous figures for the next five years downwards by around a fifth.

The forecast compares how much higher average world temperatures are likely to be than the “long-term average” from 1971-2000.

It had been thought that this would be 0.54C during the period 2012 -2016 but new data puts the figure for the 2013-2017 period at 0.43C.

This figure is little higher than the 0.40C recorded in 1998, the warmest year in the Met Office Hadley Centre’s 160-year record – suggesting global warming will have stalled in the intervening two-decade period.

However, it is thought that factors such as ocean current patterns may be behind the slowdown and scientists say the “variability” in climate change does not alter the long-term trend of rising temperatures.

Of course, the usual “however” statement (highlighted) leaves the door open for future panic.

Hat tip – Greg Pollowitz of Planet Gore – Scientists: Global Warming Has Stopped.