On 14/02/2014 07:25, Ian Bingham wrote:
The HadCRUT series of world temperatures show that average world
temperature stopped rising around 2000, and if anything has been slowly
falling since. The question is not so much where the heat energy has
gone (it has evidently gone into beefing up the atmospheric circulation,
both horizontal and vertical) as why temperatures stopped rising when
they did. What happened around 2000 to cause that change?

Ian Bingham,
Inchmarlo, Aberdeenshire.

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