Let us look at the last three decades average global temperature but update the Met Office graph to Hadcrut4. You will notice it is essentially the same showing a steady increase – the unchanging underlying rate of global warming. Now, bearing in mind the imposed constraint in the Met Office approach of decades with arbitrary start and end points, take the same Hadcrut4 data but this time use all the available and work backwards in 5-year integrations. You will see it tells a very different story. There is now no consistent increase in temperature seen in this data. The data, displayed this way, reveals that far from showing a steady underlying rate of warming the global temperature has had two standstills, with curiously, the 1998 super El Nino delineating them. –David Whitehouse, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 23 October 2012
