Is it just my imagination or is the global warming theory starting to unravel? More likely, opposing viewpoints that have been stifled in recent years are finally getting an airing.

I say that because there is nothing new in this report except it appears in a prominent British newspaper, the Telegraph. Just as other reports have begun to filter into the consciousness of people about sunspots also playing a role in warming the earth as well as temperature statistics that show the earth has actually cooled off the last decade.

Regardless of why, this is an interesting story:

Researchers studying long-term changes in sea temperatures said they now expect a "lull" for up to a decade while natural variations in climate cancel out the increases caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions.

The average temperature of the sea around Europe and North America is expected to cool slightly over the decade while the tropical Pacific remains unchanged.

This would mean that the 0.3°C global average temperature rise which has been predicted for the next decade by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may not happen, according to the paper published in the scientific journal Nature.

However, the effect of rising fossil fuel emissions will mean that warming will accelerate again after 2015 when natural trends in the oceans veer back towards warming, according to the computer model.