Climate change guru Phil Jones made the admission:
THERE has been no global warming for 15 years, a key scientist admitted yesterday in a major U-turn. Professor Phil Jones, who is at the centre of the “Climategate” affair, conceded that there has been no “statistically significant” rise in temperatures since 1995.
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The scientist behind the so-called "climate-gate" e-mail scandal now admits there has been no statistically significant global warming since 1995.
Professor Phil Jones also tells the BBC that scientists are unsure whether the Medieval Warm Period was actually warmer than current temperatures. Some skeptics say that is the first time a senior scientist working with the U.N. report on climate change has admitted the possibility that the time between 800 and 1300 A.D. could have actually been warmer than present temperatures. That would be a blow to global warming believers.
Jones also admitted some of his weather data was not organized well enough and that contributed to his refusal to share raw data with critics. But Jones maintains he's just a scientist doing a job: "I have no agenda."
So, the natural question to ask is if global warming is linked to carbon dioxide emissions, and if C02 emissions have continued to increase, why no warming?
OK.
But what about the AGW proponents who now claim that this is merely indicative of the fact that those years where the temps leveled off where on the tail of some really HOT years?
In other words, they’re claiming two things in one here:
1) Warming is not linear. There are blips and hiccups in the progression, as with many other natural phenomena.
2) We don’t see any cooling. Just a temporarily level plateau at the moment that is still giving us warmer years overall than, say, anything in the early 1900s.