Someone needs to remind the professor, the “pause” is neither predicted by or meets the models used by the “man made” global warming crowd, AND remind the professor that mere corellation (it is a cycle seen before) also does not explain cause.
The REAL fact is that the earth climate has been generally warming, with fits and starts, since the end of the last great ice age, and “industrial polution” or not is likely to keep warming no matter what humans do, OR NOT, as natural forces much stronger than human input dictate.
The REAL fact (your caps) is that the Earth has been warming and cooling in a cyclic fashion for hundreds of thousands of years. The cycle is something like 100,000 years of extreme cold, followed by 10,000 - 20,000 years of warming.
The transition back to cold takes less than 100 years.
Care to guess where we are in the cycle?