claim: "global surface temperatures have been flat for 16 years."
author: steve goreham
evidence_1: aug 21, 2013 ... dismissing the recent 17 years or so of flat global temperatures, the ipcc will  assert ... increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010.” ...  while global warming has been trumpeted as an epic climate change ...  temperatures dropped dramatically again in the middle of the 16th century, ...
evidence_2: a global warming hiatus, also sometimes referred to as a global warming pause  or a global .... there have been repeated records set for extreme surface  temperatures. ... high level despite strong la niña conditions, and said the "5- year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade, ..... doyle, alister (16  august 2013).
evidence_3: nov 4, 2015 ... merely because there has been little or no warming in recent ...... retorts are as  flat as the temperature trend and earth surface you would have us believe in. ......  fellow-delegates there had been no global warming for 16 years.
evidence_4: jan 16, 2013 ... the five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which  we interpret as a ... since giss is all about the surface temperature, that suggests  (to rational thinkers at least) that ... january 16, 2013 at 8:16 am.
evidence_5: oct 13, 2012 ... the world stopped getting warmer almost 16 years ago, according to new data  released last week. ... before that, temperatures had been stable or declining for  about 40 years. ... from more than 3,000 worldwide measuring points, has been  flat. ... they will cost the average household about £100 this year.