Uh, oh: Looks like Lewandowsky and Oreskes will be going after the AGU now for admitting the 'hiatus' exists

The cult of CAGW took 18 years to respond to the plateau of no warming.
I am curious as to the time periods when the media, politicians, and scientific community will abandon the cult of CAGW when faced with significant and dangerous cooling.
Observations continue to support the assertion that the solar cycle has been interrupted.
In the 1990’s paleo climatologists discovered evidence in the first Greenland ice sheet core data that some of the periodic 200yr, 500yr, 1500yr, and 8000yr, climate changes were rapid not gradual events. For example, the Greenland ice core data shows that the Younger Dryas abrupt cooling event, 12,900 years before present at which time the planet went from interglacial warm to glacial cold with 75% of the cooling in last than a decade.
The first Greenland ice core finding was not expected (the consensus belief/paradigm in the early 1990s was that climate changes were gradual) and many specialist at first asserted that the Greenland data must be incorrect as they believed the planet’s climate could not possibly change that as rapidly at the evidence indicated it did. A second Greenland ice core was drilled to confirm the observations were correct. The second set of ice core data corroborated that the past climate changes were very, very, rapid.
The question is now not did the Rapid Climatic Change Events (RCCEs) “Rickies” occur, but rather what is causing them? What is the forcing function(s) that could possibly cause such a rapid and extreme change in the planet’s climate?
The fact that the small, medium, and large climate change events have the same periodicity and the fact that there are cosmogenic isotope changes at the rapid climate change events supports the assertion the same forcing function is causing all events. It is the sun.
An analogue of what to expect next is the 8200 years BP (before present) abrupt cooling event.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.2_kiloyear_event#/media/File:Greenland_Gisp2_Temperature.svg
P.S.
The 8200 BP event was not caused by a stoppage or a slowdown of the North Atlantic drift current. The assertion that a stoppage or slowdown of the North Atlantic drift current could cause a significant drop in winter temperatures in Europe and on the Greenland Ice sheet is an urban myth.
http://sheridan.geog.kent.edu/geog41066/7-Overpeck.pdf

ABRUPT CHANGE IN EARTH’S CLIMATE SYSTEM
“The earliest Holocene abrupt climate changes occurred at 12,800, 8200, 5200, and 4200 B.P. . . .”
The 8200 B.P. event, “lasted four hundred years (6400-6000 B.C.) and, like the Younger Dryas, generated abrupt aridification and cooling in the North Atlantic and North America, Africa, and Asia (Alley et al. 1997; Barber et al. 1999; Hu et al. 1999; Street-Perrot and Perrot 1990).

According to the marine records, the Eemian interglacial (William: Last Eemain is the name of the last interglacial period) ended with a rapid cooling event about 110,000 years ago (e.g., Imbrie et al., 1984; Martinson et al., 1987), which also shows up in ice cores and pollen records from across Eurasia. From a relatively high resolution core in the North Atlantic. Adkins et al. (1997) suggested that the final cooling event took less than 400 years, and it might have been much more rapid.
The event at 8200 BP is the most striking sudden cooling event during the Holocene, giving widespread cool, dry conditions lasting perhaps 200 years before a rapid return to climates warmer and generally moister than the present. This event is clearly detectable in the Greenland ice cores, where the cooling seems to have been about half-way as severe as the Younger Dryas-to-Holocene difference (Alley et al., 1997; Mayewski et al., 1997). No detailed assessment of the speed of change involved seems to have been made within the literature (though it should be possible to make such assessments from the ice core record), but the short duration of these events at least suggests changes that took only a few decades or less to occur.
The Younger Dryas cold event at about 12,900-11,500 years ago seems to have had the general features of a Heinrich Event, and may in fact be regarded as the most recent of these (Severinghaus et al. 1998). The sudden onset and ending of the Younger Dryas has been studied in particular detail in the ice core and sediment records on land and in the sea (e.g., Bjoerck et al., 1996), and it might be representative of other Heinrich events.
http://www.geo.arizona.edu/palynology/geos462/8200yrevent.html

The 8200-year Climate Event
This figure shows snow accumulation and isotopically inferred temperature records in the Greenland GISP2 ice core and a temperature record derived from oxygen isotope measurements of fossil shells in the sediments of Lake Ammersee, southern Germany. These records all show a major climatic instability event which occurred around 8200 years ago, during the Holocene. The event was large both in magnitude, as reflected by a temperature signal in Greenland of order 5 C, and in its geographical extent, as indicated by the close correlation of the signal in these two locations. The dramatic event is also seen in the methane record from Greenland (not shown here) indicating possible major shifts in hydrology and land cover in lower latitudes. source: Von Grafenstein et al (1998) Climate Dynamics, 14, 73-81.

The “discovery” that “heat” gets transferred from the Pacific through to the Indian Ocean is hardly groundbreaking news. Southern Western Australia would be a desert without the warm south-flowing Leeuwin Current driven by conditions in the Pacific.
Warmer water, greater evaporation, better rain in SW Australia. Compare with equivalent areas…..Atacama and Namib deserts that have cold currents.
eg https://blogs.csiro.au/ecos/the-good-news-el-nino-story-for-western-australias-oceans/