Quote:Lol yea I'm not surprised that's what you got out of that. But are you being genuine? Let's take a look:


We know 1998 was a red letter year. It was the hottest year on record until 2014 (and now 2015). The inclusion of that graph was to demonstrate that there was no pause as was eagerly reported in February. But you knew all that already.


From the article:


"New research from a major national lab projects that the rate of climate change, which has risen sharply in recent decades, will soar by the 2020s. This worrisome projection — which has implications for extreme weather, sea level rise, and permafrost melt — is consistent with several recent studies."


That was the very first paragraph! Did you skip that part?


They go on:


"The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) study, “Near-term acceleration in the rate of temperature change,” finds that by 2020, human-caused warming will move the Earth’s climate system “into a regime in terms of multi-decadal rates of change that are unprecedented for at least the past 1,000 years.”"


"...rates of change that are unprecedented for at least the past 1000 years" - that sounds wonderful


Here's the graph you should have made mention of: