It's officially known as a report on the "Measurement of the Duration of a Trendless Subsample in a Global Climate Time Series." In lay-speak, it's a study of just how long the current pause in global warming has lasted. And the results are profound:

According to Canadian Ross McKitrick, a professor of environmental economics who wrote the paper for the Open Journal of Statistics, "I make the duration out to be 19 years at the surface and 16 to 26 years in the lower troposphere depending on the data set used."

In still plainer English, McKitrick has crunched the numbers from all the major weather organizations in the world and has found that there has been no overall warming at the Earth's surface since 1995 - that's 19 years in all.

During the past two decades, there have been hotter years and colder years, but on the whole the world's temperatures have not been rising. Despite a 13 per cent rise in carbon dioxide levels over the period, the average global temperature is the same today as it was almost 20 years ago.

In the lower atmosphere, there has been no warming for somewhere between 16 and 26 years, depending on which weather organization's records are used.

Not a single one of the world's major meteorological organizations - including the ones the United Nations relies on for its hysterical, the-skies-are-on-fire predictions of environmental apocalypse - shows atmospheric warming for at least the last 16 years. And some show no warming for the past quarter century.

This might be less significant if some of the major temperature records showed warming and some did not. But they all show no warming.

Even the records maintained by devoted eco-alarmists, such as the United Kingdom's Hadley Centre, show no appreciable warming since the mid-1990s.

Despite continued cymbal-crashing propaganda from environmentalists and politicians who insist humankind is approaching a critical climate-change tipping point, there is no real evidence this is true.

There are no more hurricanes than usual, no more typhoons or tornadoes, floods or droughts. What there is, is more media coverage more often.

Forty years ago when a tropical storm wiped out villages on a South Pacific Island there might have been pictures in the newspaper days or weeks later, then nothing more. Now there is live television coverage hours after the fact and for weeks afterwards.

That creates the impression storms are worse than they used to be, even though statistically they are not.

While the UN's official climate-scare mouthpiece, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has acknowledged the lack of warming over the past two decades, it has done so very quietly. What's more, it has not permitted the facts to get in the way of its continued insistence that the world is going to hell in a hand basket soon unless modern economies are crippled and more decision-making power is turned over to the UN and to national bureaucrats and environmental activists.

Later this month in New York, the UN will hold a climate summit including many of the world's leaders. So frantic are UN bureaucrats to keep the climate scare alive they have begun a worldwide search for what they themselves call a climate-change "Malala."

That's a reference to Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban after demanding an education. Her wounding sparked a renewed, worldwide concern for women's rights.

The new climate spokeswoman must be a female under 30, come from a poor country and have been the victim of a natural disaster.

If the facts surrounding climate-disaster predictions weren't falling apart, the UN wouldn't such need a sympathetic new face of fear.

Is that a tropical storm moving north?

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>> ^Deano:

You must miss certain things. What about the beer and the weather? (yes I like our varied weather)
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>> ^Hybrid:
I'm so proud to be British right now.

I'm so proud to have fled the island completely. Just when I start getting a bit homesick, the sift fixes me right up.


Well, I've moved to Australia (on account of my wife being a citizen) so the beer is pretty great, and the weather is a mixture of clear blue skies, humid and overcast days and tropical storms. Actually, Winter is very much like Summer in England. It's not too hard to get used to.

I do still get nostalgic, though, and there are things about the place that I appreciate in a new light, viewing the UK from a distance.

Cue tropical storm Alex, any minute now

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:

It depends on what you mean when you say that. There is no arguement that human being can affect localized climates. But the premise of the Warmers is that the C02 generated by man since the industrial revolution is the cause of temperature increases.

I thought it was pretty clear,humans are effecting the increase in temperature on the planet. I don't think I can make it more precise. Someone has already linked the science proving that, and if you desire more, then I will provide it. But it is more than C02 production, it's a combination of other things as well, that have to deal with pollution.

eg. Why are the oceans warming up at such a pace? A great visual example of that is the Gulf of Mexico. The waters are so damn warm there, that any tropical storm gets whipped up into a hurricane in no time flat. Why? Because of all the crap coming down the Mississippi and settling into the Gulf.

Is it all C02? No, but it does play its part. You can't disprove this, because they've been researching it for decades now. You think that tossing that amount of Carbon into the air wouldn't do anything to the atmosphere? Or dumping tons upon tons of crap into our oceans and drinking water, wouldn't have some kind of effect on the environment around it?

Many of the powerline poles were knocked down but all the palm trees were like, "Whatevs". It must be in their evolution to weather tropical storms so well.

Tropical storms can do some damage too. Good luck.

Aaaaaand Hannah has reversed course again and is headed north to smack Georgia, then follow through to my neck of the woods as a tropical storm. That should be fun!

And Bill Hicks spins in his grave. If you're going to suggest an increase in tropical storms equals global warming that's fine, but just to say a tropical storm means global warming is stupid, especially in Florida which has probably been hit by at least one storm every year for the last 200 years.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Believe it or not,
I'm walking on air.
I never thought I could feel so free-.
Flying away on a wing and a prayer.
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it's just me.


Awesome. Makes me think of:

Believe it or not,
George isn't at home.
Please leave a message at the beep...

Also, it's very easy to let go when you don't go kite boarding during a potential hurricane. But I guess that takes brains. Yummy, delicious brains.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Believe it or not,
I'm walking on air.
I never thought I could feel so free-.
Flying away on a wing and a prayer.
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it's just me.


Wow, and here I was thinking I was the only person who remembered Greatest American Hero...

Spiral Island as seen in the video has been destroyed in 2005 by the tropical storm Emily. He's building version 2 at the moment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Island

When I was 11 or 12, I was on a cruise ship that got stuck in a tropical storm in the carribean. I dont remember much about the cruise other than this horrible storm (and a horrible sunburn I got on treasure island). I remember there was puke EVERYWHERE... in the hallways, the lobbies, everywhere.

This animation shows the named storms from the 2005 hurricane season. During a re-analysis of 2005, NOAA's Tropical Prediction Center/National Hurricane Center determined that a short-lived subtropcial storm developed near the Azores Islands in late September, increasing the 2005 tropical storm count from 27 to 28. This storm was not named and is not shown in this animation.

Credit:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Additional credits:
Sea surface temperature Data by Remote Sensing Systems and sponsored by the NASA Earth Science REASoN DISCOVER Project and the AMSRE-E Science Team.

NCEP Cloud composite courtesy of NOAA's Climate Prediction Center.

Storm tracks and strenghts courtesy of NOAA's National Weather Service.

Blue Marble MODIS data composite courtesy of the MODIS Science Team NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the NASA Earth Observatory.

Music created and produced by UniqueTracks. Fantasy (theme from Norma) - Vincenzo Bellini.