There Has Been No Global Warming For The Past 15 Years

There is no dispute that the world got a little warmer over some of the 20th Century.
(Between 1940 and the early Seventies, temperatures actually fell).
But little by little, the supposedly scientific ‘consensus’ that the temperature rise is unprecedented, that it is set to continue to disastrous levels, and that it is all the fault of human beings, is starting to fray.
Earlier this year, a paper by Michael Mann made an extraordinary admission – that, as his critics had always claimed, there had indeed been a ‘medieval warm period’ around 1000 AD, when the world may well have been hotter than it is now.
Other research is beginning to show that cyclical changes in water vapour – a much more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide – may account for much of the 20th century warming.
Even Phil Jones, the CRU director at the centre of last year’s ‘Climategate’  leaked email scandal, was forced to admit in a little-noticed BBC Online interview that there has been ‘no statistically significant warming’ since 1995.
The question now emerging for climate scientists and policy-makers alike is very simple. Just how long does a pause have to be before the thesis that the world is getting hotter because of human activity starts to collapse?