Did UK Met Office claim in 2012 that global warming stopped 16 years ago? Not the most respectable source, nevertheless mainstream newspaper Daily Mail claimed that: > **Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released... and here is the chart to prove it** > > * The figures reveal that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012 there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures > * This means that the ‘pause’ in global warming has now lasted for about the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996 > > > !enter image description here

No, the "No warming in 16 years" claim is cherrypicking. 1997 was an exceptionally warm year and 2012 was especially cool, due to strong El Nino and La Nina effects respectively.

The Met Office made a specific refutation of this claim on their official blog the day after it was published.

The author making the claim also made a similar one earlier in the year, which was also the subject of a refutation by the Met Office.