2010 is not only not the hottest year since temperatures were recorded, it is turning out, in northern Europe at least, to be one of the coldest. You've got to admire the UK Met Office. Just as temperatures in Scotland and northern England dropped below those recorded at the North Pole, they announced 2010 as the hottest year on record. They achieved this marvellous result by 'recalibrating' the raw temperature data, which as a result now fits the computer projections.

If the UK Met Office was a private company, they'd be charged with fraud. They probably should be.

a Royal Commission is the only way to get to the truth behind all the 'science'. In the meantime; Europe is covered in snow and Australia is (mainly) dripping wet

579, that was after the figures were doctored, [sorry corrected] wasn't it?

Note too that the highest alleged rise in temperature comes from precisely those places where weather stations are fewest and furthest between -- especially the Arctic areas. Now, a sceptic might say that's because it's easier to fudge and 'homogenise' data from a few sparse weather stations where there is no independent data to check them against, but of course no scientist would be so biassed as to deliberately encourage his colleagues to fudge data and hide embarrassing results, would he?

Oh...

“But it would wrong to say, as many do say, that the PDO itself causes changes in the climate. This admonition holds also for ENSO. Thus, it’s no good pursuing PDO or ENSO saying that they can account for the observed warming. They cannot. They might be used in a statistical predictive sense, but are of little use as explanations of why the climate changes.”

It is difficult to grasp what the Author means by this statement, although I trust that it is not an attempt to support AGW.

To me that is like saying Christmas does not cause Christmas. It comes around when it is due to manifest, and if someone tried to point to a cause for the celebration and giving of gifts, other than Christmas itself, it would be ridiculous.

PDO and Enso come around when they do, and part of the phenomenon is global warming. Obviously they do not cause themselves, or cause global warming. They are themselves, and they manifest in some global warming.

If it is asserted that the warming comes from a source extraneous to the cycle , like human emissions, the assertion requires justification. It is clear that the warming is part and parcel of the natural cycles, and there is no room for such an assertion, unless it is based on some scientific proof.

The pretence that there was some “unallocated” global warming, not part of the phenomenon of the cycle, which was “likely” to be AGW, is empty, and has been refuted.

Thanks, Ho Hum it is nice of you to inform us that you have no idea what you are talking about, have no relevant comment to make, but then make pointless, irrelevant, off topic comments anyway. I am sure we could have managed without your time wasting observations.

579 must have been reading fraudulent, deceptively named sites like realclimate and the Skeptical Science, unless he made up this hottest year nonsense himself.

579 .. "2010 is the hottest year since temperatures were recorded."

So what?

should we all commit suicide?

What's your problem, adapt, or move aside .. what a foolish person!