No, it hasn't.

NASA is a big proponent of AGW, and even they admit the oceans are not warming to the extent required to explain the pause.

Your statement relies on the unspoken assumption that Apple actually innovates. They don't seem to be doing much of that lately; more often their modus operandi is to treat customers and business partners with contempt, litigate against any company seen as competition, and overcharge for, well, virtually everything.

Well, if they're 4 dimensional, that makes sense. 3 space dimensions, and 1 time dimension. You didn't plug it in at the right time, initially, and had to wait 6.43 seconds to get it into the right spot in time to make it work. :-/

"Will the test results incriminate the accused? Will the police have to keep up with their tireless searching for evildoers? Tune in next week, same Bat-time, same Bat-channel, when we won't answer these questions! Then in two weeks, we probably won't answer them again! But if you tune in a month from now, we'll find the answers to these pressing questions!!"

So, just because a non-police citizen can lie about what they witnessed, then it's OK for the police to use lousy techniques with known flaws? WTF?

You do realize providing false evidence in an investigation is a crime in itself in a lot of (most?) jurisdictions, right?

I had a similar idea at the time. Rather than a chopshop, though, I figured somebody, somewhere, had need for a passenger jet for something nefarious. Or for that matter, something legitimate, but that the authorities would find nefarious. Basically, a need for a large jet, that for some reason could not be obtained through normal channels.

The longer it is that no unexplained jet shows up doing something no major airline expects, though, increases the probability that I've been watching too many spy movies.....

Wow. The straw men in this article are thick and fast.
Nowhere did I state that 2 cold winters were more important than a 15 year average. I just pointed out that the "single winter" that the GP discounted was not only a single winter, but was significantly more "unimportant outlier data" than what they were admitting to.

So, what caused the cooling trend from 1880 to 1905 or so? It would be very interesting to see data back to 1000 A.D plotted on that graph, which was roughly the middle of the Medieval Maximum, with temperatures roughly what they are today.

The scientific community as a whole once believed the world was flat.
The scientific community as a whole once believed chocolate and red wine were bad for you. Or was that good for you? No, it was bad. No...good.
The scientific community as a whole has changed its mind on many things in the past, as new research has been done, or flaws in old research and methodologies have been found.

A huge part of the basis of science is attempting to disprove theories with new research. When you fail to question conventional wisdom, it's not science. It's religion.

I didn't use either of those words in my post. Stop trying to straw man me.

I find that figure for Europe very difficult to believe, as last year was full of news stories from Europe of below average temperatures. Can't say anything about Russia, as I don't read or speak the language, and don't really follow english language Russia Today.

I'm not preoccupied with US weather. That was just the map that the poster I replied to used.

Now, in response to yours, it shows that Antarctica is for the most part .5 to 2 degrees colder than the 1951-1980 average, yet the global warmists are saying that massive ice sheets are breaking off and melting because of (record?) high Antarctic temperatures.

Sorry, that Central Park temperature of 4 degrees F converts to -16 C, not 16 C.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2...

January 6, 2014, Chicago, -16 F. Previous record of -14 F set in 1884.
January 7, 2014,Central Park in New York City was 4 F (16 C). The previous record low for the day was set in 1896.

Oh...that's right. You only asked for a single one.
Well, perhaps these southern Ontario record breaking lows will make you feel better, as they're not quite 100 years old:

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blog...

Hamilton hit -22 C, previous record of -17.2 C set on March 4, 1962.
London, -24 C, previous record of -22.8 C, set in 1950.
Windsor, -17 C, previous record of -14.4 C, set in 1943.

Heh heh. True. But there does seem to be a fairly large population of fools on the Internet, doesn't there?