Promo pretty much said it better than I could but you don't seem to understand that ideologically driven data and opinions seem to dominate the climate change discussion rather than facts. The looney left has 97 percent of the world's scientists on their side and these ones don't work for big oil.
Actually, the propaganda claim is that 97 per cent of climate scientists support the hypothesis of man-made global warming, and it's B.S.
For example, a recent survey of the members of the American Meteorological Society only found 52 per cent support for the hypothesis that man-made emissions are the primary driver of warming:
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00091.1
twizz said:
According to NASA's website, 10 of the warmest years were within the last 12
http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
As the original post noted, the satellite data show there hasn't been any warming for more than 18 years.
In fact, since 1850, there have been three similar warming periods that cover 20-year periods. They occurred from about 1860 to 1880, from about 1918 to 1937, and from the late 1970s to the late 1990s.
It is only in the third period, from the late 1970s to the late 1990s, where there is a correlation between man-made CO2 emissions and the warming of the planet. In the earlier periods, the warming couldn't possibly be attributed to heavy burning of fossil fuels. While there was a correlation from the late 1970s to the late 1990s, correlation doesn't prove causation.
Furthermore, the predictions of skyrocketing temperatures in the early 21st century that were based on that 20-year period of correlation proved to be completely wrong.
The research that was the basis for those predictions -- particularly the notorious "hockey stick" graph -- has been discredited by the observed data and by other research, and the "hockey stick" conclusion that the Medieval Warm Period wasn't global is equally shaky. As leading climate researcher Phil Jones admitted in an interview with the BBC, if the Medieval Warm Period was global, "then obviously the late-20th century warmth would not be unprecedented."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8511670.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8511670.stm