All:
Richard Lindzen (Prof. of environmental science at MIT) has commented on the year in which recent global warming stopped. He writes:
“We are probably making a mistake in saying that there has been no warming since 1998. The standard enviro response is that 1998 was an El Nino year. While this is not an entirely meaningful response, one doesn’t have to deal with it at all, since there has been no statistically significant warming since 1995. Of course, communicating the meaning of statistical significance could be difficult.”
While Lindzen is correct that statistically global warming stopped in 1995, I still maintain that 1998 is the correct year to use when assessing the end of the most recent warming phase. The warmest year was 1998 (i.e. after 1995) and the most recent warming was a warming phase of 60-year-cycle that could be expected to end around year 2000.
Of course, for the reasons I have stated in this forum, we do not know if warming will resume in some future year or cooling will follow the halt to global warming that has existed for (at least) a decade.
But some will keep trying to pretend that global warming has not stopped whatever happens. Such denial of reality is normal for religious bigots.
Examples of this denial of reality are provided by the AGW-attack-dogs who also make cowardly untrue personal defamations while hiding behind pseudonyms in this forum.
Richard
