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to the Senate that global warming indeed had started and that its cause was carbon dioxide we were putting into the air. His testimony helped start the IPCC and gave a kick start to the present global warming movement. Global temperature curves from NASA, NOAA, and the Met Office do indeed show a so-called "late twentieth century warming" in the eighties and nineties, just when Hansen spoke. But here is the problem: satellites have also been recording global temperatures and they simply cannot see this warming. What they do see in its place is a temperature oscillation, up and down by half a degree for twenty years, but no rise. This is very different from a steady rise but it has been conveniently ignored by global warming advocates. I have analyzed those curves and concluded that they are all cooked. As in falsifed. But now consider this: if there was no warming in 1988 then there is no basis whatsoever for claiming that any greenhouse warming exists. It simply has not been observed, either then or now. The climate history of our time does show actual warming, a very abrupt warming which started when the super El Nino of 1998 showed up. But its cause was not carbon dioxide in the air but a storm surge in the Indo-Pacific region. This storm dumped much warm water to the beginning of the equatorial countercurrent, and that is where all El Ninos begin. The one-time temperature rise caused by the super El Nino was a full degree Celsius, more than the entire warming recorded for the twentieth century. Its warm water lingered and was responsible for the "twenty-first century high," a run of six warm years that followed. Temperature stayed high but did not rise while carbon dioxide kept increasing at the rate it has been for the last fifty years. But all this came to an end in 2008 when a La Nina cooling appeared. It signified the resumption of the oscillatory climate of the eighties and nineties obliterated by the fake warming of NASA, NOAA and the Met Office. From now on, expect a succession of El Ninos alternating with La Ninas and no carboniferous warming predicted by IPCC. They are part of the ENSO system in the Pacific and have existed since the Isthmus of Panama rose from the sea. For more on this and other important climate features read "What Warming?" available on Amazon.com. My advice to the billionaires is to use it as a guide to our real climate and dump those warmist shills.