The claim that global warming stopped 15 years ago, based on a selective approach to data and are not considered with the natural variability of climate.

And these statements are published on Saturday, October 13, British newspaper the daily mail, which many is not without reason that one of the "yellow" in the country (well, after the "San", of course).

A large reduction in the area of Arctic sea ice this summer is just one evidence that global warming is not stopped. (Photo by Jeremy Potter, NOAA / OAR / OER.)

The article cited temperature data on land and seas from August 1997 to August 2012. With their help a David rose tried to prove that in this period there was no discernible increase in global average temperature. And if in some summaries and there is global warming, it is only due to a defective computer models. By the way, according to him, the intergovernmental panel on climate change only such and uses.

Experts have found that the article is based on the latest version of the set of data on global temperature HadCRUT4, which amounted Meteorological service of great Britain and the Department of climate research, University of East Anglia.

In official comments Meteorological service did not discuss a trend detected by Mr. rose, but notes that his article is misleading. Climate scientist Michael Mann of Pennsylvania state University (USA) responded to the note more sharply. According to him, David rose is not the first time confuses the public and generally behaving dishonest. "Global warming is not stopped by any objective measures - minted scientist. - It is right on schedule, and in many ways (take a record loss of Arctic sea ice this summer) is even ahead of schedule".

Meteorological service again leads the answers to the questions put forward by Mr. rose before this article. For example, from August 1997 to August 2012, the global average temperature has increased by 0.05 C. If to count in 1999, the warming will be even stronger. In other words, a lot depends on the starting point, besides climate change can only be determined on the basis of observations spanning several decades, because the climate is naturally inherent fluctuations. For example, the cycles of surface ocean temperature can decades to mask or exacerbate human influence on climate.

"Over the last 140 years, the global sea surface temperature increased by about 0.8 C - write meteorologists. - But at the same time were registered several periods of ten years or more when the temperature grew very slowly or even declined. This period of weak warming is not without precedence, in the periods of 15 years is nothing unusual".

In the previous article, Mr. rose in "the daily mail claimed that the climate is influenced by the cycles of solar activity. However, while no one denies that we are largely dependent on the mood of our luminary, already a number of studies confirmed anthropogenic warming.

National Board of oceanic and atmospheric research (USA) refused to comment on the statements of Mr. rose, but noted that, according to the last monthly report, published on 15 October, the current September continued long number of months that were warmer than the average of the XX century. By the way, together with the September 2005 he divided the title of the most warm September in the history of observations.

Prepared according to LiveScience.