text: Surely the temperature has to start going up. Thats what all the current fuss is about. A few years ago the Met Office said that most of the following five years would be record breakers. When it was obvious they were wrong a new model said there would be no change. It is not a minor downward adjustment as Hickman calls it. Its the difference between record warming and no warming, the difference between our understanding and ignorance of the science. Say what you will about regional climate change, accumulating energy in the system, natural fluctuations, man-made aerosols etc, the temperature has to rise eventually. We are all, sceptic or otherwise, waiting for the global temperature to rise. We have been since 1997. --David Whitehouse, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 10 January 2013