It is a scam. It always has been a scam. And It always will be a scam. The IPCC, who is a group installed to promote AGW or ACC, cannot support the reason for their own existence with facts.

Quote by Chris Folland of UK Meteorological Office: “The data don't matter. We're not basing our recommendations [for reductions in carbon dioxide emissions] upon the data. We're basing them upon the climate models.”

NOPE 1998 was the warmest year on record according to the IPCC

-9 of the warmest temperatures have been recorded since 1998

NOPEglobal temperatures have flatlined since 1998 with a slight cooling trend since 2006

tNOPE he rate of temperature increase since 1998 is only half the rate of increase recorded between 1951 and 1981

NOPEclimate models have failed to reflect current climate condition

NOPEatmosphere temperature has remained unchanged despite climate models showing a proportional increase to surface temperatures

-Global scientist have admitted that their climate models were too sensitive to carbon dioxide emissions

-both polar ice caps are expanding

If those were indeed facts it would make me wonder, however:

"The globally-averaged temperature for 2013 tied as the fourth warmest year since record keeping began in 1880. It also marked the 37th consecutive year with a global temperature above the 20th century average. The last below-average annual temperature was 1976. Including 2013, all 13 years of the 21st century (2001-2013) rank among the 15 warmest in the 134-year period of record. The three warmest years on record are 2010, 2005, and 1998."

And so forth.

"Recent intensification of wind-driven circulation in the Pacific and the ongoing warming hiatus"

"Despite ongoing increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases, the Earth’s global average surface air temperature has remained more or less steady since 2001. A variety of mechanisms have been proposed to account for this slowdown in surface warming. A key component of the global hiatus that has been identified is cool eastern Pacific sea surface temperature, but it is unclear how the ocean has remained relatively cool there in spite of ongoing increases in radiative forcing. Here we show that a pronounced strengthening in Pacific trade winds over the past two decades—unprecedented in observations/reanalysis data and not captured by climate models—is sufficient to account for the cooling of the tropical Pacific and a substantial slowdown in surface warming through increased subsurface ocean heat uptake. The extra uptake has come about through increased subduction in the Pacific shallow overturning cells, enhancing heat convergence in the equatorial thermocline. At the same time, the accelerated trade winds have increased equatorial upwelling in the central and eastern Pacific, lowering sea surface temperature there, which drives further cooling in other regions. The net effect of these anomalous winds is a cooling in the 2012 global average surface air temperature of 0.1–0.2 °C, which can account for much of the hiatus in surface warming observed since 2001. This hiatus could persist for much of the present decade if the trade wind trends continue, however rapid warming is expected to resume once the anomalous wind trends abate."