BBC Warming up to skeptics

A skeptical Warming article on the BBC? Didn't think I'd see the day.

Entitled "What happened to Global Warming?", the article publishes a fact that the IPCC and it's many Global Warming Hysterics have yet to admit, that the Earth has not warmed in the last 11 years, and the hottest years "on record" is 1998.

"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."

Admitting the blatant inaccuracies of climate models AND the inconsistencies of our carbon-dioxide models..in the same sentence?? Please note that the Australian Government is trying to rush through legislation for an Emissions Trading Scheme (E.T.S) which will affect all Australian households and business based on carbon dioxide emissions.

There is of course the mandatory questioning of the evidence:

"Warming in the last 20 to 40 years can't have been caused by solar activity," said Dr Piers Forster from Leeds University, a leading contributor to this year's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)."

And of course the defence of current climate models (ALL of which failed to predict this 11 year cooling phase):

"The UK Met Office's Hadley Centre, responsible for future climate predictions, says it incorporates solar variation and ocean cycles into its climate models, and that they are nothing new.

In fact, the centre says they are just two of the whole host of known factors that influence global temperatures - all of which are accounted for by its models."

But don't worry believers, an article daring to venture the skeptical viewpoint would not have got by the Editors if it didn't support 'overall' the Hysteric point of view:

"What is crucial, they say, is the long-term trend in global temperatures. And that, according to the Met office data, is clearly up."

Of course, once you factor in the Medieval Warm Period and take a reasonable sample of historical global temperatures, the spectacularly debunked hockey stick disappears, and that according to Jack's research, shows the long term trend is certainly not going up (at least not by a scary woo-woo 1C...in 100 years....maybe....)

However there is comfort in the last sentence:

"One thing is for sure. It seems the debate about what is causing global warming is far from over. Indeed some would say it is hotting up."

Someone please tell Al Gore....