Uploaded October 2012 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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No, sadly the Mail on Sunday has got it wrong... yet again. Here's what's behind the sensational news that global warming ended in 1997, and how it comes from misreporting, misquotes and omissions.

SOURCES:

Mail on Sunday story:
dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released--chart-prove-it.html

Met Office release of Hadcrut 4 data:
metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcrut4

Met Office response to Mail on Sunday story, including pre-publication correspondence with David Rose:
metofficenews.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/met-office-in-the-media-14-october-2012

Rebuttal of Mail on Sunday story in January 2012:
metofficenews.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/met-office-in-the-media-29-january-2012

Mail temperature graph taken from Mail on Sunday story:
dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released--chart-prove-it.html

NASA land-ocean temp graph taken from:
http://ete.cet.edu/gcc/?/resourcecenter/viewResource/3/