One of a thousand similar 'science' stories in the news:
«For example, over the past 17 years or so there has been a slowdown — even a pause — in the rate of warming of the atmosphere. We're confident the climate is still changing, because the oceans are still warming, land is losing ice, and sea level is rising. We predict the atmosphere will start to warm again after this temporary blip, and we think there are several contributing factors to the pause, including a change in movement of heat around the planet, a dip in the brightness of the sun, and reflection of the sun by pollution and volcanic eruptions — but we don't yet know the exact contributions of each.»
Another reason to be confident the atmosphere «will start to warm again», is of course the fact that it is warming and never stopped warming. Including this last August, there's been at least 3 months this year warmer globally than any year since the start of measure. 2005 and 2010 have set new global all–time high temperature records. 2014 is expected to do the same. Since when was a «pause» an adequate description of a decade of steadily warmer and more extreme surface temperatures, in which we've also had at least 4 (*) all–time minima for Arctic Sea Ice volume?
Are we to assume that since the extreme El Niño year of 1998 (that all climate change deniers love to cherrypick), world climate and weather would suddenly stop producing 'noise' — ups and downs — which it has been producing for eons? That after 1998 there would be no Winter, no night and day? It is truly sad to see so–called scientists go down this road of politicized reporting and debating.
In reality, the Pausers, as we may now rightfully call them, are serving a pretty clear political interest with their writing, separated from the science, of course, which shows a steady rise of temperatures. If your salary has mostly been around £50,000, you don't go around calling yourself poor the first years that you make over £100,000, unless you're an irony relic from the nineties.
I said "at least 4". There's been no less than TEN new all-time minima for sea ice volume since 1998. Some 'pause', huh?