That Settles It!

Mounting evidence of lower temperature trends despite rising atmospheric CO² levels is becoming a real problem for the greenhouse gas crowd. And reports that the cooling appears to follow a period of dormant solar activity aren't likely to ease their anxieties.
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According to UK's Telegraph the report stemmed from "initial findings from a new computer model of how the oceans behave over decades," and readers were reminded that:

"The IPCC currently does not include in its models actual records of such events as the strength of the Gulf Stream and the El Nino cyclical warming event in the Pacific, which are known to have been behind the warmest year ever recorded in 1998."

Of course, solar activity is also essentially ignored by IPCC models, and it too saw an apex in 1998. Isn't it interesting how, not unlike insects scampering from light exposed by a stone overturned, greenies struggle desperately to avoid directly confronting the power of the Sun?

Temperatures are now expected to drop over the next decade or more. But don't worry, the warm-mongers have already written the excuses. And despite the fact that this anomaly in temperatures didn't show up in the vaunted computer models the science is settled! You hear me, the science is settled and no lack of confidence in the computer models can change that!

By
DKK
The American Thinker -- Are Global Warmists Pulling a Cool Fast One?

Update:

"One of the reasons I got annoyed with the IPCC when I was involved, was an almost universal dismissal of the contribution of natural forcing to the observed warming - particularly the role of decadal-scale climate variability such as the PDO. In discussions with one of our Nobel Peace Prize winning meteorologists back in the 1990s, their position was that the greenhouse effect had overwhelmed natural variability and it just would not be possible for the PDO to switch.”
Willem de Lange

Watts Up With That -- IPCC Annoyance
DKK