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Blog bully crows over BBC climate victory---Emergent Truthiness
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By Andrew Orlowski
Posted in Environment, 8th April 2008 12:07 GMT
Bullying bloggers are no strangers to online media - especially when they're Single Issue Fanatics (SIF). "They're deeply emotional, they're bullies, and they often don't get out enough," the BBC's Adam Curtis noted here last year. This week, campaigner Jo Abbess is boasting about how she browbeat the BBC into modifying a story about Global Warming. The BBC has defended the changes to its story.
Abbess swung into action on Friday after the BBC's Roger Harrabin reported comments by World Meteorological Organisation secretary general Michel Jarraud. In a story titled "Global temperatures 'to decrease'", Harrabin wrote:
"The World Meteorological Organisation's secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, told the BBC it was likely that La Niña would continue into the summer. This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory."
La Niña is the cooling phase of what's called the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which affects the sea surface in the central and eastern Equatorial Pacific. Niña alternates with El Nino, which raises temperatures. We're entering the Niña phase. Global temperatures have been static from their 1998 peak, when El Nino peaked.
It's nicely illustrated by this graph:
The ENSO cycle
Which also shows how foolish it is to extrapolate anything from short-term trends.
The plateau in temperature this century was acknowledged by IPCC chief Dr Rajendra Pachauri back in January.
Abbess fired off an email titled "Correction Demanded: 'Global temperatures 'to decrease'". She argued that anyone who doubts the scientific orthodoxy is not qualified to hold an opinion.
"Several networks exist that question whether global warming has peaked, but they contain very few actual scientists, and the scientists that they do contain are not climate scientists so have no expertise in this area."
Harrabin initially stood firm.
But we must tax the rich and give to the poor until there are no rich no more!
Orlowski at a going-away party in San Francisco.
Andrew Orlowski (born 1966) is a British columnist for the online IT newspaper The Register.
Interesting story....Andrew Orlowski needs a prize....
What happened to global warming?
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By Paul Hudson
Climate correspondent, BBC News 
 Average temperatures have not increased for over a decade
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This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.
But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.
And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.
So what on Earth is going on?
Climate change sceptics, who passionately and consistently argue that man's influence on our climate is overstated, say they saw it coming.
They argue that there are natural cycles, over which we have no control, that dictate how warm the planet is. But what is the evidence for this?
During the last few decades of the 20th Century, our planet did warm quickly.