QOTD

Even the notoriously leftist BBC mans-up to reality:

What happened to global warming?

This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.

But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.

And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.

So what on Earth is going on?

Climate change sceptics, who passionately and consistently argue that man's influence on our climate is overstated, say they saw it coming.

They argue that there are natural cycles, over which we have no control, that dictate how warm the planet is.

Agreed -- the Department of Commerce says the 1998 to 2008 annual temperature trend in the contiguous United States was minus 0.78 degF per decade. And the media is starting to concede the point.

(via The Corner)