Regarding the April Fools' comment, global warming is a hoax, and always has been as versatile as a Swiss army knife for the looters. The environmentalists seized upon the control vacuum created by the collapse of the Berlin Wall. An excellent analysis was given on about a 10-page section around p. 500 of the paperback version of Michael Crichton's State of Fear.

What you said is exactly correct. Global warming is 99.999+% dictated by solar radiation, and well over 99% of the global variation is due to the occurrence of sunspots, which right now are less frequent than normal. All one has to do is an energy balance. Yes, the CO2 levels are higher than they have been in a while, but there was a time in Earth's history that CO2 levels were both MUCH higher and MUCH lower and temperatures were MUCH higher and MUCH lower. Does anyone not enough geologic history to know how prevalent volcanoes were billions of years ago? Much more recently in geologic term, most of the US was covered in a glacier. People fail to see that they are relatively insignificant specks compared to the size of the entire planet.

Finally an article that tells it like it is.

Can we please tell the EPA it has no business regulating CO2 now?

worse, the UN?

An article in the most recent Scientific American Magazine refers to this period of no global warming as a "faux pause" in the rate of glogal warming.

Scientific American was started to show that you could make money as an independent inventor. It has become a political vehicle for the environmental religion of human haters.

This is the decline that Phil Jones sought to hide.

It can't be science, there's no hockey stick!!!

I have a serious theory. The article poses the open ended question of "What's happening? We ARE dumping all this carbon and other "greenhouse gasses", but the graph shows :average temps"? He is truly confused. And so are the "Earth first" folks who would cut every humans throat - except for the fact that our bodies would add to global warming.

So here's my theory - The earth - are you sure you are ready? - The Earth is really, really big.

http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExp... tells us that the volume of the earth is 1,097,509,500,000,000,000,000 cubic meters AND the Earth weighs 13,227,735,730,800,000,000,000,000 pounds. So class, you see the earth is really big AND it weighs a lot.

Just one form of carbon - coal - accounts for 850 Giga tons of carbon. Ever since the earth cooled (no matter how you thought that happened) - the earth has been absorbing carbon and turning it into coal. It is what it does.

I predict that in a few millennia there is going to be a new coal age as the deposits we are making today reach maturity and provide a "new" source of energy for earths inhabitants.

Think of it like this, we are making energy for our great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grand kids! Keep up the GOOD work!

Hmm, the period of no climate change coincides with (recent) record highs and lows within a very short time. Sounds like someone fails to understand precisely what is changing. It's not the averages you should be looking at, it's the extremes: they're getting progressively more extreme as time goes on, which is precisely what the greenhouse effect predicts: a loss of moderating weather patterns first, not necessarily a change in median (there's still a change in median, but the noise caused by say the Gulf Stream changing course will drown it out). This simply goes to prove that climate deniers major claim to fame is they dismiss that which they cannot understand. E pur si muove and all that crap.

this is the problem with trying to talk with people who support global warming data. They constantly manipulate the data points. If there in fact has been no measurable warming since around 2000, this does not fit their model. Yet, their data is forever adjusted higher. I'm not sure I follow your point, j.

That's actually a very good theory. When you think about it, all the stuff we use came from the Earth originally. Other than the few tons of spacecraft that we've sent out of Earth Orbit, where can it all go? Back into the Earth of course! So, we'll eventually find a way to use it again! Your theory makes great points! Obviously something the enviro-wacko leftists refuse to understand.

The IPCC is and has always been a scam run through the UN solely for the purpose of bleeding the productive industrialized western capitalist countries of they well deserved and earned wealth. Using the powerful weapon of guilt, - you are killing our planet - these parasites use an institution we created, the UN, as the blunt weapon to bludgeon us and kill the most successful and economically just socio-economic system ever conceived - CAPITALISM.
Thanks for posting KH & adding to it Robbie.
Cheers.

This story about the period of no global warming exceeding the period of global warming is appropriate for April Fool's Day.

I have spent a lot of time over the years taking time based data and turning it into graphs. Even before I got into n-scale web hosting and managing networks I was doing this to manage blood sugar, weight, income stock picks and gas mileage. Pretty much always, if you have enough data and you graph it patterns will emerge. Climate is interesting but no different. Its more like the Mandelbrot set. If you zoom in on a day or a year the same wave pattern keeps reappearing. If you zoom way out it appears again leading one to wonder just how often and at what levels the wave emerges from the data. while I am no 'climate scientist' I have seen the pattern.

Thanks for these articles. They incorporate most of the facts needed to understand the science and the politics.