No discernible rise in global temp, 1997 to 2012 - UK Met Office’s Hadley Centre

No discernible rise in global temp, 1997 to 2012 - UK Met Office’s Hadley Centre

The new data, compiled from more than 3,000 measuring points on land and sea, was issued  quietly on the internet, without any media fanfare, and, has not been previously reported. The regular data collected on global temperature is called Hadcrut 4, as it is jointly issued by the Met Office’s Hadley Centre and Prof Jones’s Climatic Research Unit.

Since 1880, when worldwide industrialisation began to gather pace and reliable statistics were first collected on a global scale, the world has warmed by 0.75 degrees Celsius.

At last week’s UK Conservative Party Conference, the new Energy Minister, John Hayes, promised that ‘the high-flown theories of bourgeois Left-wing academics will not override the interests of ordinary people who need fuel for heat, light and transport – energy policies, you might say, for the many, not the few’ – a pledge that has triggered fury from green activists, who fear reductions in the huge subsidies given to wind-turbine firms.

From the start of 1997 until August 2012, figures released last week show the rise in aggregate World temperature has been zero: the trend, derived from the aggregate data collected from more than 3,000 worldwide measuring points, has been flat.

Consumers have seen their energy bills going up because of the array of ‘green’ subsidies being provided to the renewable energy industry, chiefly wind.Subsidies will cost the average household about £100 this year. This is set to rise steadily higher. It  is being imposed based on the widespread conviction, shared by politicians of all stripes and drilled into children at primary schools, that, without drastic action to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions, global warming is certain soon to accelerate, with truly catastrophic consequences by the end of the century – when temperatures could be up to five degrees higher.

Global industrialisation over the past 130 years has made relatively little difference. And with the country committed by Act of Parliament to reducing CO2 by 80 per cent by 2050, a project that will cost hundreds of billions, the news that the world has got no warmer for the past 16 years comes as something of a shock.It poses a fundamental challenge to the assumptions underlying every aspect of energy and climate change policy.

The computer models that have for years been predicting imminent doom, such as  those used by the Met Office and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, are flawed, and the climate is far more complex than the models assert.

A feature of this debate is that anyone who questions the alarmist, doomsday scenario will automatically be labelled a climate change ‘denier’, and accused of jeopardising the future of humanity.