Re: climate policies are the reason for the agw pause,
>these folks really believe their citizens are STUPID.
Yes, and so do you. You tried to get us to believe that something happened in 1998 that stopped Global Warming, but you still haven't said what that something is.
We know how much energy reaches earth from the sun, and we know how much of that energy leaves earth. We know these amounts of energy because we measure them. So we know that the amount of energy reaching earth from the sun is significantly larger than the amount of energy leaving earth and going back into space.
Where is that extra energy? You haven't said.