Stumbled upon this while "crawling" the Web. The readers' comments made the article very long so just lifted an excerpt of the main topic:
Has Global Warming Really Stopped?
Mark Lynas
Published 14 January 2008
(1283 comments so far)
Mark Lynas responds to a controversial article on newstatesman.com which argued global warming has stopped.
On 19 December the New Statesman website published an article which, judging by the 633 comments (and counting) received so far, must go down in history as possibly the most controversial ever. Not surprising really – it covered one of the most talked-about issues of our time: climate change. Penned by science writer David Whitehouse, it was guaranteed to get a big response: the article claimed that global warming has ‘stopped’.
As the New Statesman’s environmental correspondent, I have since been deluged with queries asking if this represents a change of heart by the magazine, which has to date published many editorials steadfastly supporting urgent action to reduce carbon emissions. Why bother doing that if global warming has ‘stopped’, and therefore might have little or nothing to do with greenhouse gas emissions, which are clearly rising?
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