SOMEONE TELL AL GORE, GENTLY – AT 9:23 A.M. ET:  Although I briefly saw Bill Moyers on TV last night going through the liturgy of the Church of the Global Warming, some pretty astute scientists aren't singing from the same hymnal.  From London's Daily Mail:

The world stopped getting warmer almost 16 years ago, according to new data released last week.

The figures, which have triggered debate among climate scientists, reveal that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012, there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures.

This means that the ‘plateau’ or ‘pause’ in global warming has now lasted for about the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996. Before that, temperatures had been stable or declining for about 40 years.

The new data, compiled from more than 3,000 measuring points on land and sea, was issued quietly on the internet, without any media fanfare, and, until today, it has not been reported.

This stands in sharp contrast to the release of the previous figures six months ago, which went only to the end of 2010 – a very warm year.

Ending the data then means it is possible to show a slight warming trend since 1997, but 2011 and the first eight months of 2012 were much cooler, and thus this trend is erased.

COMMENT:  What to do, what to do?  All those broken hearts out there in liberal-land.  But not to worry.  Liberal hearts never stay broken for long, because Al Gore, or an Al Gore wannabe, will unquestionably be out soon with a study showing we are burning up, and our cities are about to overflow with either water or Diet Pepsi. 

I'll be curious to see how much space this new revelation receives in the mainstream media.  I'm not holding my breath.  But we'd better get this right before the world allocates trillions of dollars to fight a problem that may not exist.

October 15, 2012