Well, well, well, explaining the 'pause'

Alarmists had suspicions all along that they were wrong. Skeptics are now being vindicated as alarmists desperately search for the missing heat.

This 2007 ClimateGate quote seems timely: "What if climate change appears to be just mainly a multidecadal natural fluctuation? They'll kill us probably..."

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What if climate change appears to be just mainly a multidecadal natural fluctuation? They'll kill us probably...[Via Barry Woods; Tommy Wills, Swansea University to the mailing list for tree-ring data forum ITRDB, 28 Mar 2007]

‘Mind blowing paper’ blames ENSO for Global Warming Hiatus

‘If La Niña events can stop global warming, then how much do El Niño events contribute? 50%? The climate science community is actually hurting itself when they fail to answer the obvious questions’

Study Ties Global Warming ‘Hiatus’ to Pacific Cooldown:

A Cooler Pacific May Be Behind Recent Pause In Global Warming : NPR

New Study: ‘Sophisticated computer models’ reveal ‘Just 8.2% of the Earth’s surface, in the Pacific Ocean, may be responsible for the global warming ‘hiatus’

'It argues that not only could the current hiatus in the warming be due to natural causes: so also could the rapidity of the warming from the 1970s until the late 1990s.'

Leading UN IPCC Scientist Concedes Oceans Have ‘Profound Effect On Average Global Surface Air Temperature’

Those Stubborn Facts: NPR Confirms Those '97%-Climate-Scientists' Were 100% Wrong On Global Warming

Is the Pacific Ocean Responsible for a Pause in Global Warming?: Scientific American

another paper blames ENSO for global warming pause, calling it ‘… a major control knob governing Earth’s temperature.’ | Watts Up With That?

So much so apparently that the oceans can overwhelm any contribution from CO2.

Somehow the heat trapping gas CO2 that puts the ‘atmosphere on steroids’  was unable to keep the Pacific warm. Is this more evidence that CO2 is not the thermostat controlling our climate?

Do we owe CO2 an apology?

More well, well, well from the recent IPCC AR5 WGI. What do we find in Chapter 2 on weather extremes?  They can’t find any patterns emerging that would indicate that CO2 is making the weather worse. So much for the ‘supercharged atmosphere on steroids’ description!

IPCC Calls Off Planetary Emergency?

And now there are ten....

Update: Excuse number 10 for the global warming ‘pause’ — ‘Coincidence!’, according to NASA scientists: ‘Coincidence, conspired to dampen warming trends’

Climate Depot Analysis: ‘There have been at least nine  ten separate explanations for the standstill in global warming’ – 1) Low Solar Activity; 2) Oceans Ate Warming; 3) Chinese Coal Use; 4) Montreal Protocol; 5) Readjusted past temps to claim ‘pause’ never existed 6) Volcanoes 7) Decline in Water Vapor 8) Pacific Trade Winds 9)  ’Stadium Waves’ 10) ‘Coincidence’

Update Feb. 28, 2014: Der Spiegel On 15-Year Pause: ‘Biggest Mystery In Climate Science’: ‘Climate models had never expected the pause: Only 3 of 114 climate simulations were able to reproduce the trend of the past years, the IPCC concludes in its latest report. The reason for the deviation between models and observations is unclear.’

And the beat goes on. Isn’t it embarrassing when the climate models of the ‘settled science’ can’t negotiate the curve that Mother Nature put in their path and they fall off the runway? Billions wasted on the crime of the century. Politicians heeded the wrong scientists. How do we prevent such descent into pseudo-science in the future? Our resources are precious. They should not be wasted chasing a phantom of the atmosphere.

Climate "Experts" Growing List of Excuses For Global Warming 'Pause' & Official Climate Model Failures