Heat Is Gone: Global Warming Game Runs Out Of Steam

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Environment: Global warming hasn't been a point of contention in the presidential campaign. This is as it should be, because it's not a real issue. Earth's temperature is about the same now was it was in 1997.

In fact, we don't believe it's ever been a real issue. Global warming has always been an idea, a guess. We've never been satisfied that man's small contributions to the carbon dioxide level in our atmosphere were causing the planet to overheat.

The global warming alarmists always liked to point to the "hockey stick" graph that supposedly showed temperatures flatlining for about 900 years before shooting sharply upward starting around 1900. Now that chart has been discredited.

With that in mind, we invite the alarmists to take a look at a graph produced by the Met Office, the official weather forecaster of the United Kingdom.

It shows that global temperatures have been up and down since 1997 but are at the same place they were at the beginning of that year.

"This means that the 'plateau' or 'pause' in global warming has now lasted for about the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996," writes Daily Mail reporter David Rose.