text: UN Trapped in Climate Turmoil CHURCHVILLE, VAThe man-made warming activists at the UN are trapped in turmoil over how to deal with the earths lack of warming since 1998. A week or so ago, the UN climate panel circulated a draft statement that would have admitted were unlikely to have any further earth-warming for the next 30 years because climate change signals are expected to be relatively small compared to natural climate variability.