A few years back. while discussing the so-called Global Warming Temperature Pause (eg http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/metofficegovuk/pdf/research/climate-science/climate-observations-projections-and-impacts/paper2_recent_pause_in_global_warming.pdf) I wrote that alarmist and other climate cultists ought not worry because the folk at data adjustment central would be working overtime to alter the data to eliminate the pause.

In 2014, the data on the most used dataset (HADCrut4) showed that world temperatures has increased by a mere 0.03C in the period 2000-2014 and that with margins of error there was a statistic pause in warming.

This was a disaster for the climate alarmist, not to mention the climate carpetbaggers, who sought all sorts of ways of diminishing the implications of this data.

In 2014, the folk at HADCrut decided that the data needed to be adjusted and did so. Following these changes, (well lookie here) the data now showed that the temperatures between 2000 and 2014 had now, as per the adjusted data, increased by 0.08C and that there was no longer a statistic pause.

But that wasn't good enough for the cultists, so they then decided to revise the dataset as HADCrut5 and (lo and behold!) the temperatures between 2000 and 2014 had, according to the new data, increased by 0.14C.

That is, the data for the same period, using the same measurement systems had been adjusted from an increase of 0.03C for the 14 year period to 0.14C. and thus, the pause was gone - never happened. Thousands of scientists had been working on the reasons for the pause. Even the IPCC had looked at why it had occurred. And then, suddenly (poof) it was gone.

Meanwhile, the satellite temperature record which HASN'T been adjusted to suit the alarmists continues to show a pause between 2000 and 2014. It also shows a DECLINE in temperature trends between 2015 and the present of 0.09C. But that doesn't getting talked about - unhelpful to the narrative dontchyaknow.

Recently the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a paper which not only validated the satellite record but showed that the climate models significantly over-estimate warming.

Tell me again, why do we need net-zero emissions?

Dear Mhaze,

«Tell me again, why do we need net-zero emissions?»

1) Governments (both national and world) need social cohesion to suppress us and kill our independent spirit, and in order to build social cohesion they need to create some common enemy - in this case the element Carbon, 6th in the periodic table (representing Satan, 666?) and having 12 protons+neutrons (representing Judas Iscariot of the 12 apostles?). What else to do when people no longer believe in witches?

2) Fossils in the form of oil, coal and gas slowly accumulated in earth's crust for perhaps 2 billion years, then in just 100-200 years half of them are already gone. Is that right to burn them like this and not leave anything for the future intelligent species, our superiors, who may follow on earth in perhaps some 100-million years hence once foolish mankind destroyed itself? Would you waste your own savings that quickly unless drunk? How would you feel if someone else robbed your life-savings in one go like we rob the earth? Is that fair? We are guilty and deep down we know it.

Yuyutsu, if in 100 million years some new highly intelligent species has replaced us on the planet, let them use wind & solar power, I would rather we used it now, rather than save it for your mythical species.

Remember the stone age didn't end because the cave men ran out of stones, & the hydrocarbon age is highly unlikely to end because this carbon life form ran out of hydrocarbons. We stopped harvesting dung long before it ran out, & we will stop wanting to harvest hydrocarbons long before they run out, if greenies & governments just stop trying to pick winners & direct our efforts.

We all made up our minds about climate hysteria years ago; the hysteria is still there, and the results are worsening.

Yesterday I received a notice telling me that 'Your electricity rates are changing', which was coward-speak for you are going to have to pay an extra 34% to keep the lights on. That news was in tiny figures needing a magnifying glass to read.

The expensive, economy-killing nonsense is not working (there is no net zero CO2 magic occurring anywhere in the world) and the next step will be climate lockdowns. ('The New Abnormal', Aaron Keriaty).

The bad guys are still winning - because the sheep, still bleating about the Covid Terror they allowed - are as gutless as they were then, when they should have been rising up.

It's a waste of time talking about it. We are going down.

Energy Australia advises that the East Coast electricity network will be "precarious" this winter, and the price "misery" will continue, thanks to taxpayerfunded unreliables that are making the likes of Twiggy Forrest and his CCP mates richer and richer. All thanks to a few scheming mongrels who started the false climate "emergency".

And the rest of us patiently wait in the holding pens to be shorn, not only of our money, but also of our freedoms.

Whether there is global warming or not- we should encourage China, India, Africa to keep their populations at more sustainable levels. Many conflicts in the world today could be reduced through lower world population density.

We all need energy to live- oil and electricity are some of the more efficient forms of global "grid" energy.

The energy debate seems to be conducted based on communist principles and favouring high population density nations.