Surprised to see this in the NY Times

Other publication (often British tabloids) have been publishing this, but now it's in the NY Times. I guess it must be true!

What to Make of a Warming Plateau

As unlikely as this may sound, we have lucked out in recent years when it comes to global warming.

The rise in the surface temperature of earth has been markedly slower over the last 15 years than in the 20 years before that. And that lull in warming has occurred even as greenhouse gases have accumulated in the atmosphere at a record pace.

The slowdown is a bit of a mystery to climate scientists.

But given how much is riding on the scientific forecast, the practitioners of climate science would like to understand exactly what is going on. They admit that they do not, even though some potential mechanisms of the slowdown have been suggested. The situation highlights important gaps in our knowledge of the climate system, some of which cannot be closed until we get better measurements from high in space and from deep in the ocean.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/science/earth/what-to-make-of-a-climate-change-plateau.html?_r=0

I actually do think humans contribute to warming and agree it's misleading to say there has been no warming in the last 15 years, especially if your starting point was the very warm year of 1998. But I think this "plateau" makes it clear that our models are not very accurate for making future predictions.

Let alone raising the cost of living to everyone based on nothing more than what is proving to be very inaccurate predictions that are based upon very inaccurate models. But I've got a brand new shiny Roosevelt fiat dime minted just this year that says it doesn't stop the "settled science" nonsense.

Surprised to not see Science Chic weigh in on this. She can set us straight on how this article in the New York Times is wrong.