I downloaded the raw data from the 7(?) weather stations that track global temperatures a few years ago when on another site, a very similar debate was raging. I plotted it in Matlab and performed a regression analysis. I found a period that you could accurately track that showed no rise in temperature. Turns out, there are a bunch of them. That was way before I knew of the existence of skeptical science - maybe it was before it existed. It's not that hard. Try it.
Don't need to ----
For RSS the warming is not significant for over 23 years.
For RSS: +0.127 +/-0.134 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1990
For UAH the warming is not significant for over 19 years.
For UAH: 0.146 +/- 0.170 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1994
For Hadcrut3 the warming is not significant for over 19 years.
For Hadcrut3: 0.095 +/- 0.115 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1994
For Hadcrut4 the warming is not significant for over 18 years.
For Hadcrut4: 0.095 +/- 0.110 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1995
For GISS the warming is not significant for over 17 years.
For GISS: 0.111 +/- 0.122 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1996
I also have reliable information on how this compares to PREVIOUS lapses in warming and it's significantly longer than most 20th century "flat spots".
Most climate orgs agree that you need 12 - 17 yrs of no warming to invalidate the modeling and theory.. Well son --- we're mostly there..
NOAA says...
”The simulations rule out (at the 95% level) zero trends for intervals of 15 yr or more, suggesting that an observed absence of warming of this duration is needed to create a discrepancy with the expected present-day warming rate.”
Now will you cease your support of folks who are attempting to IGNORE this significant event and acknowledge that there is a troublesome "pause, lull, or flatspot" in the MEASURED warming?
Or do you want to be a valuable skepticalscience dupe and continue to deny science?