Except, of course, this isn't the hiatus being referred to, as you well know. Go check that previous Met Office link, and innumerable past posts for further details; now it's my turn to say CBA doing it all again when clearly you're not even remotely engaged here.
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Q.1 “First, please confirm that they do indeed reveal no warming trend since 1997.”
The linear trend from August 1997 (in the middle of an exceptionally strong El Nino) to August 2012 (coming at the tail end of a double-dip La Nina) is about 0.03°C/decade, amounting to a temperature increase of 0.05°C over that period
Met Office link, as previously provided by me and ignored by you:
https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2012/10/1 ... ober-2012/Ooh, 15 YEARS of data (i.e. not 3 months, in an El Nino year at that), from 1997 onwards, not 1950 or whenever you're now claiming (that'll be ANOTHER unexplained hiatus, oopsie) and a rise of ONE TWENTIETH OF ONE DEGREE over that ENTIRE 15 YEAR PERIOD, as according to the Met Office, as previously linked. Wow, one twentieth of a degree, pass round the life rafts; just what the models predicted, yeah? Oh no. Yeah, no hiatus here, eh guv.
As for your other point - way to miss the point. I was showing that in just one small example, an Indian megacorp LEGITIMATELY skimmed hard-pressed and austerity-weary EU consumers (ultimately) to the tune of a billion pounds - for absolutely nothing (in the name of Climate Change policy), in effect an 'inverse windfall tax'. Except, of course, windfall taxes tend to be mandated by the people, whereas this clearly isn't, and only came to light at all because of the issues there. Further, said policy actually goes AGAINST climate change since the whole purpose of it is to allow multiple carbon emitters to buy their way to churn out vastly more of the stuff than they're targeted to, and in the case of the biggest ones, they get to do it for nothing and get to sell their overbid carbon credits - that they got given for nowt - for many millions or billions, and none of it making any difference to their activities carbon-wise either. And all the while, the Chinese et al do what they damn well like, no doubt having a good belly-laugh at us stupid Europeans destroying our manufacturing over this BS, whilst they dump their subsidised steel (as produced with scant, if any, environmental concerns) on us. Etc.
I mean, you just have to LOL, right Doc?