"yttiw" wrote in message
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On 2013-09-28 12:30:00 +0000, Adam Lea said:

On 28/09/13 10:50, yttiw wrote:


I notice that the BBC have finally been forced to admit that the rapidly
rising global mean temperature curve has shuddered to a halt since 1998.


*sigh* Not this again.

http://www.skepticalscience.com/graphics.php?g=47

The irony of linking to a site that does not fit the line to their own
curve properly is obviously lost on you.

You could try the official graph here -
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/info/warming/gtc.pdf

But presumably you are tired of this "nonsense" from the Hadley Centre as
well?


I am not a denier by any means, but after being overly patronised when the
first few years after 1998 seemed to buck the previous 30 year trend, I
tended to take more than a passing interest in the subsequent years.

Now, it would seem that even after 15 years of flatlining graphs, the
patronisers still rush to impose their self righteous views on me, as if I
had just crawled from under a stone.

It is not really true that there has been 15 years of flatlining. If you
look carefully at exmetmans's graph:
http://xmetman.files.wordpress.com/2...-july-2012.png
then you can see that if you ignore the El Nino in 1998, then tempeatures
continues to rise until ~ 2007.
It is only since then that the flat lining has happened. It seems that once
temperature reach the level of the 1998 El Nino they cannot rise higher. Of
course, perhaps if we have another major El Nino, global average temperature
will again jump by 0.3C.

Cheers, Alastair.