Greeting Planeteers, it’s time for an update. Bad news, I’m afraid. The UAHv6 dataset, one of the most reliable records, points to no statistical warming of the planet for nine years and three months. None.
(WUWT) The significance of the succession of long periods without any global warming, of which the current Pause is the most recent, should not be underestimated. It is legitimate to draw from the length of such Pauses the conclusion that, since the climate system is in essence thermostatic, the radiative imbalance inferred from satellite data is either exaggerated or may be exerting a smaller effect on climate sensitivity than is currently imagined.
No small part of the reason why some object so strongly to the fact that there has been no statistically-significant global warming for almost a decade is that it can no longer be credibly maintained that “it’s worser’n we ever done thunk, Bubba”.
In truth, it’s no worser’n it was at the time of the previous IPeCaC assessment report back in 2013. But the flatulent rhetoric must be – and has been – dialed up and up, with totalitarian administrations such as that of the UK whiffling and waffling about an imagined “climate emergency.”
Here is a plot of the data for you visual folks.
If you listen to the Boys and girls and girlboys and boygirls who cry climate wolf, you’d expect this plot to look more like a steady upward climb—no such luck. The nature of global climate is, well, global.
Here in the US, we are slaves to the El Niña – El Niño cycle, which is neither new nor confounding unless you sell solar panels and wind machines to replace coal, gas, and oil.
Now covered solar and frozen turbines fail when we need them most everywhere it gets cold. Any politician who runs on this in these parts of the US or the world should be run out on a commuter rail for such nonsense.
But they haven’t been, and that’s due primarily to their having the entire legacy media and the education system peddling their snake oil which never seems to freeze no matter how cold it gets.
There’s a lot more on this here.
