Marahosy is one of the people the climate swindlers have to abuse because she is right, and they are wrong. There is BA that can be done by blaming CO2 and people for climate change. There is BA point in handing out money to climate crooks and rent-seekers to build ugly, inefficent windmills. The climate will change again when it is good and ready. There is already a very cold period on the way. The the AGW swindlers, their enablers and loudmouth supporters should be jailed, after they have repaid all the money they have extorted from us.

Doug Cotton, you're falsely accusing scientists of all making an idiotic assumption that I've not seen anyone other than a blogger actually make.

Every atmospheric scientist is aware of that temperature gradient and the reasons for it; none of them make the ridiculous claim that it's all due to back radiation from a cold atmosphere. But infrared reradiated by the atmosphere is an observed phenomenon, so if you think it contravenes the laws of physics then you clearly don't understand the laws of physics.

Notorious serial climate change denier and shill for the fossil fuel industry spews her usual tedious thousand times falsified garbage.
End of story.

Agronomist, and others,

If you would like to read more about the historical temperature records for Darwin, including back in 1907, there are some simple charts here... http://jennifermarohasy.com/2016/02/12910/

Time will pass. If this El Nino is followed by a strong La Nina, then the pause will be back. This time though it will have a strong El Nino at the supposedly warming end as well as 97/98. How many of the nasty abusive commenters here will be looking up Jennifer to appologise for the parranoid conspiracy theories and insults? Leslie Graham?
As entire civilisations have been destroyed by climate change in the distant past there is no reason to suspect that global cooling will not bring the next round of disasters. More CO2 to help combat desertification is our best hope. Who knows it may just act as a flame retardent during our next asteroid impact.

The increase in temperature is perennial topic discussed in relation to climate change. The beginnings of climate science go back almost two hundred years when fossil fuel companies were not in the process of trying to debunk climate science. The debunking of climate science has been a recent phenomena with Agencies such as Heartlands pushing against science.
In Australia the extremely conservative IPA has been trying to debunk climate science.

The animation in reference displays what happens between IR and CO2.

"Molecules of carbon dioxide (CO2) can absorb energy from infrared (IR) radiation. This animation shows a molecule of CO2 absorbing an incoming infrared photon (yellow arrows). The energy from the photon causes the CO2 molecule to vibrate. Shortly thereafter, the molecule gives up this extra energy by emitting another infrared photon. Once the extra energy has been removed by the emitted photon, the carbon dioxide stops vibrating."

From:

http://scied.ucar.edu/carbon-dioxide-absorbs-and-re-emits-infrared-radiation

A simple experiment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge0jhYDcazY

A more sophisticated experiment:

http://thiniceclimate.org/blog/details/1906/how-co2-traps-sun39s-warmth

The eleven year ARM research program was conducted in the natural environment:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150225132103.htm

Quote:

"Based on an analysis of data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's CarbonTracker system, the scientists linked this upswing in CO2-attributed radiative forcing to fossil fuel emissions and fires."