By Paul Hudson
Climate correspondent, BBC News
This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.
But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.
Average temperatures have not increased for over a decade
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.
So what on Earth is going on?
Climate change sceptics, who passionately and consistently argue that man's influence on our climate is overstated, say they saw it coming.
They argue that there are natural cycles, over which we have no control, that dictate how warm the planet is. But what is the evidence for this?
During the last few decades of the 20th Century, our planet did warm quickly.
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NOTA IMPERTINENTE DESTE BLOGGER:
Quando eu vi a histeria do Al 'Apocalipse' Gore -- alardeando aos quatro cantos que o aquecimento global é antropogenicamente causado, eu fiquei com a pulga atrás da orelha, e passei a ser um cético localizado das notícias alarmantes que a Grande Mídia Tupiniquim e Internacional nos bombardeiam.
Continuo cético... Na Idade do Gelo houve uma mudança climática catastrófica, e não foi causada antropogenicamente. e pensar que a ciência hoje não é nem capaz de acertar uma previsão de chuva... Quanto mais afirmar categoricamente que os humanos são os únicos responsáveis por este fenômeno.
