Remember all the reports that “weather stations” were placed in areas that were warmer than the surrounding area in defiance or ignorance of established standards, which for decades gave “hot” reports?
Ever remember hearing were any of that bad data was thrown out and Globull Warming was adjusted accordingly? No.
This “Over the past 15 years air temperatures at the Earth’s surface have been flat” obviously is due to those weather stations being corrected and the “Warmers” dare not admit anything regarding them as that would erase even more of their bogus data.
We are seeing the disappearance of this Globull Warming horsehockey. It won’t be long before Flim-Flam algore will be running a new scam. Maybe it won’t be long before clogged arteries will do the world a favor.
The “solutions” are always the same.
If this does get widely rejected, which I don’t see happening in the near future,
they’ll find another problem and apply the exact same solutions.
There is another possibility. The temperature stations that were intentionally sited in specifically warmed locations, biased what was a neutral or slightly rising temperature period (1990's to 2005) into an extremely rising one. And now that they are reading that temperatures have been recently steady (2005-present), they have actually been falling dramatically.