What's that about 16 years? Since 1996, you say?

You'd be surprised...

This is very weird! Anthony Watts (who runs a science denying blog, WUWT) is amused that those who understand climate change know that the world is (still) warming.  In fact, it's that very global warming that is causing climate change.

Anthony writes that Craig Rucker of CFACT writes:

You’d be surprised at what they don’t know at the UN climate conference in Bonn. Then again, maybe you wouldn’t. Although the evidence keeps mounting up, most of the delegates in Bonn are unaware that there had been no warming for 16 years**.

You'd be surprised at what Craig Rucker and Anthony Watts and people who read WUWT don't know:

1. Surface temperatures have risen:

Source: NASA

2. The oceans have heated up a lot:

Source: NODC/NOAA

3. Arctic sea ice has melted away very very quickly:

Source: PIOMAS

4. Seas have risen higher and faster:

Source: University of Colorado

5. More and more scientists agree the globe is warming and we, yes, that includes you, Anthony Watts and Craig Rucker, are the cause:

The Consensus Project

** I'm assuming they mean since 1996, 16 years before the last full year of data, 2012. Another year would make little difference.  It's still warming.

Update

If you're having trouble figuring out what the charts mean, I've prepared a short video that explains what you can glean from a chart of global surface temperature anomalies. You can see it here at HotWhopper or on YouTube. It should help with the other charts, too.

Sou 9 August 2014