Wait, what???

But you said!! We're about ready to ban incandescent light bulbs and all that.

Duffy asked [Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs.]: "Is the Earth stillwarming?"

She replied: "No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998
as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of
reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what
you'd expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon
dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been
coming down over the last 10 years."

Duffy: "Is this a matter of any controversy?"

Marohasy: "Actually, no. The head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it. He talks about
the apparent plateau in temperatures so far this century. So he
recognises that in this century, over the past eight years,
temperatures have plateaued ... This is not what you'd expect, as I
said, because if carbon dioxide is driving temperature then you'd
expect that, given carbon dioxide levels have been continuing to
increase, temperatures should be going up ... So (it's) very
unexpected, not something that's being discussed. It should be being
discussed, though, because it's very significant."

Duffy: "It's not only that it's not discussed. We never hear it, do we?
Whenever there's any sort of weather event that can be linked into the
global warming orthodoxy, it's put on the front page. But a fact like
that, which is that global warming stopped a decade ago, is virtually
never reported, which is extraordinary."

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