Look at Jeff M, "The ocean ate my heat." Ha! Ha! That is so phony that even the Dorkster wouldn't sink that low. (Well - - -maybe not!) We have only recently (approximately 1987) established the coordinated data collection for the whole Earth. And we have scant less information about the ocean's temperature. So any wild clam cannot be proven or dis-proven at this time. Now the land surface of the earth is only about 1/3 of the total area of the Earth's surface and that is two dimensional. Look how long it took scientist to get coordinated on just that. Now think of the complexity of the ocean's energy budget. It is three dimensional which adds even more complexity to the accurate measurement. To make such claims as Jeff M has made is not only premature but totally naive.

In direct answer to your question. Yes they do, but none of them make any sense or are premature. They are just covering their derrieres.

http://joemiller.us/2012/08/busted-leake...

But in 2009, as the thermometer hit record lows in America, he and other climate scientists panicked in a flurry of emails: “Skeptics will be all over us – the world is really cooling, the models are no good.”

Pause or no pause, it hardly matter to me. Your models predict exponential (far greater than linear) warming.

So while you predict exponential increases, you have to fight tooth and nail just to show some warming over the last 17 years??? You know there are still some temp measurements that have 1998 as the warmest year on record. Not exactly the scary nightmare scenario we have been led to believe in.

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I love how they talk about the oceans taking on all of the heat. Interesting, because ALL of theat heat MUST be via thermal conduction. Clearly the air is not getting clearer. Since this type of heat exchange is proportional to the difference in temperature of the two surfaces (the air and the water). And since the ocean are warming far less rapidly than the atmosphere, clearly this problem of the missing heat like a naughty little nymph hiding in the sea, is not only going to continue, but increase. You sure that is where you want your missing nymph to be found?

OMG these deniers are duped by lies and misinformation' There has been nlo pause. here was a slowdown in surfare temps but surface temps stillrose slightly for thaty whole period. The extra heat went into the ocean and the global average temp was still on the increase SO claiming that GW paused is just an ignorant lie

Sceptics are often accused of not being consistent. I would like to point out that the consensus is not consistent either. Some admit to a pause while others do not.

First we had settled science that we could rely on. As in: "We've known about all this for hundreds of years." Then we have a temperature hiccup and now we have found another 30 reasons, and counting, why we have a pause. Were those reasons not in our original models of the settled science? How many more new bits of science will we find? How many will show that temperatures could be decreasing?

Yes sir, wouldn't want anyone able to make it past the peanut gallery to answer.

It interesting. In the old days, I blocked a few folks because I was getting posts deleted.

I never blocked anyone because I didn't like their answers.

Not even once.

As for the 17 year, or any time period, pause, it's hogwash.

Climate is sufficiently complicated that it's not a straight line anything.

Not heat, not rain, not wind, not ocean.

However, something like 90% of global warming is in the ocean, and that has continued to warm.

You wouldn't know "bs" if there was actual "bs" planted by an actual "bull" right in front of you.

There is too much that science doesn't know about "why" there is gravity, let alone "how gravity actually works", which is "exactly" why climate science doesn't know "squat" about why the climate "acts" the way it does. This simple "fact" is what makes you too "ignorant" to understand where Cyclops comes from on his knowledge. Thanks for your un-intellectual question and finger-pointing of who is less intellectual. You win!!!

How does Jeff M get by with telling that Kano is wrong, while he retorts with " ... The pause, or slowdown, is most likely due to an increased uptake of energy by the oceans. ... "?

"Most likely"?

Are you guys such scientific dolts that you can't come up with a "fact"?

Albert Pujols' lifetime batting average is around .320, but he has been on a 0 for 22 slump (for example). Does that mean he is going to get a hit next time at bat?

"Most likely" isn't a reliable scientific conclusion! Science doesn't know "squat" about a great many things that they claim they do "know" about.

The no warming period is from sept 1996 to present