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Old 04-03-2013, 02:23 PM   #649 (permalink)
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Furthermore, Allen’s work fails to explain why temperatures have flatlined in the last ten years, and why his original model did not predict it. More importantly, it has nothing to say about what this pause means for temperatures during the next decade.
Why are we on this crap idea again? Temperatures haven't "flatlined", they just show normal shorter-term variations (from any number of causes) superimposed on a underlying long-term rise. Ought to be obvious to anyone who's not deliberately trying to mislead.