Climatologist Dr. Pielke Sr. rips RealClimate.org’s claims: ‘It is straightforward to shed doubt on Gavin Schmidt’s (and the IPCC) claim’
'If the increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentration were so dominate we would expect the global average [annual] lower troposphere temperature to more-or less monotonically continue to rise in the last decade or so. This clearly has not occurred, as illustrated, for example, in the figure below for the lower troposphere'
