UK Met Office: 2013 ‘very likely’ to be in Top 10 warmest years

A billion pounds a year to the Hadley Center and they still produce works of fiction and spout nonsense.
No warming since 1998, a beetle in a matchbox would offer greater insight, pathetic.

Here is the question. Why is man-made global warming being pushed so hard as the major cause of the unusual weather patterns around the globe? Why is it being turned into dogma that forbids any dissent? What do its proponents have to hide? Do they fear open discussion will prove their theories wrong? Do these people believe in God?

Many scientists are either atheists or agnostics; and, a good number of climate scientists fit this mold. They blame today's wild weather patterns on greenhouse gas emissions from burning of fossil fuels after studying computer models. They fail to include geological evidence disputing their theories. After all, they're not geologists; they're climatologists and meteorologists.

Geologists study more than computer models of global climates; thus, they can give evidence of even higher temperatures just a thousand years ago, during an era known as the Medieval Warm Period, in which Greenland was totally ice free, making it easier for Vikings in Iceland to travel west to Greenland and settle there as well. So, what can climatologists say about that period? Was man-made global warming behind those warmer temperatures?

The current favourite denier myth of the moment - that there has been no warming since 1998 needs addressing. First models do indeed predict temporary halts in warming because of other cycles within the Earth's climate system - of these the ENSO ( el Nino/La Nina oscillation )is probably the most significant. 1998 saw a particularly large El Nino - since then the La Nina ( cooler ) pacific water cycle has dominated. Please witness Arctic ice melt and the moving north of pests/diseases as well as more variable weather around the globe ( climate change ) predicted as a consequence of GW ( weaker and more sluggish jet-stream ). If those espousing the view that AGW is a myth would like to link to peer-review science saying same and also give their qualifications/expertise on the subjet. Do not just state it as fact because you don't like being told things and your ignorance on the subject blinds you to the science but also the obvious. AGW theory stands criticism because all drivers of warmth have been eliminated as the culprit bar CO2. "The present level is higher than at any time during the last 800 thousand years, and likely higher than in the past 20 million years. ( Wiki.) Oh and BTW: Ice ages/inter-glacials are/were caused by eccentricities in the earths orbit and currently the NH should be cooling.

Tony
Some facts on CO2, first of all it is 1.5 times heavier than air so most of it is at ground level not up in the upper layers. It is also only a minute trace gas not as most of the press would have you believe a major gas of 5 to 10% of the atmosphere it is in fact only .039% an eg of this % would be Big Ben in London is 316' tall if this was a graph only 1.5 inches would represent CO2 and of this only 1/8 of an inch would be man made. As everybody knows the biggest greenhouse gas is water vapour @ 4% 100 times greater than CO2 which we have no control over!!

UEA. They're the mob who lost the data and didn't Dr. Viner from there predict no snow by now? These people are charlatans to put it politely and still they are taken seriously by a deluded few. As for Hildegard I guess she is protecting her well paid job. Telling lies is one of the prerequisites on the job application. I see they quoted UEA, GISS and NOAA the three worst offenders in the climate scam.