20 years of global "cooling" is just now making its way into the mainstream news cycle. Global temperatures have been flat for two decades while carbon emissions have increased . . . not a good thing for the global redistributionists among us.

The following comments come from The Australian,  the "mainstream" news source in Australia.  Understand that The Australian supports the premise of global warming,  but has come to a point in time,  after two decades,  in which it is forced to admit that there is a problem with Leftist's warming declarations.  Understand that "global warming mania"  is all about the redistribution of wealth on a nation scale.  It is part of the Utopian fantasy that has infected the minds of otherwise intelligent beings.  

When you read the following,  keep in mind the bias of The Australian,  and the undeniable facts embedded in its reporting.  

From the Australian:  

DEBATE about the reality of a two-decade pause in global warming and what it means has made its way from the skeptical fringe to the mainstream.

In a lengthy article this week, The Economist magazine said if climate scientists were credit-rating agencies, then climate sensitivity - the way climate reacts to changes in carbon-dioxide levels - would be on negative watch but not yet downgraded.  

Another paper published by leading climate scientist James Hansen, the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (does he still work for NASA?  News to me  -  blog editor), says the lower than expected temperature rise between 2000 and the present could be explained by increased emissions from burning coal.  (of course it could,  but Occam's Razor demands the simplest answer,  that the warmest's are wrong !!).  

For Hansen the pause (i.e. the slowdown in global warming) is a fact, but it's good news that probably won't last.  (really?  "They denied the slowdown at 8 years,  then 10,  then 16 years and, now,  at the 20 year mark).  

International Panel on Climate Change chairman Rajendra Pachauri recently told The Weekend Australian the hiatus would have to last 30 to 40 years "at least" to break the long-term warming trend.  (well,  are more than half way to that point in time,  aren't we).  

But the fact that global surface temperatures have not followed the expected global warming pattern is now widely accepted.

Research by Ed Hawkins of University of Reading shows surface temperatures since 2005 are already at the low end of the range projections derived from 20 climate models and if they remain flat, they will fall outside the models' range within a few years.

"The global temperature standstill shows that climate models are diverging from observations," says David Whitehouse of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

"If we have not passed it already, we are on the threshold of global observations becoming incompatible with the consensus theory of climate change," he says.

[David] Whitehouse argues that whatever has happened to make temperatures remain constant requires an explanation because the pause in temperature rise has occurred despite a sharp increase in global carbon emissions.

The Economist says the world has added roughly 100 billion tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere between 2000 and 2010, about one-quarter of all the carbon dioxide put there by humans since 1750. This mismatch between rising greenhouse gas emissions and not-rising temperatures is among the biggest puzzles in climate science just now, The Economist article says.  (go to The Australian for the full article.)