Sweden does not have an arctic border.

Low solar activity this cycle may be related to any slowdown. If that continues, we may buy some time to do something about global warming, but more likely we would use it as an excuse for delay.

The "pause" is a rightwing myth that scientists have already debunked.

"New research by Kevin Trenberth and John Fasullo of the National Center for Atmospheric Research investigates how the warming of the Earth’s climate has behaved over the past 15 years compared with the previous few decades. They conclude that while the rate of increase of average global surface temperatures has slowed since 1998, melting of Arctic ice, rising sea levels, and warming oceans have continued apace.

The widespread mainstream media focus on the slowed global surface warming has led some climate scientists like Trenberth and Fasullo to investigate its causes and how much various factors have contributed to the so-called ‘pause’ or ‘hiatus.’ However, the authors note that while the increase in global temperatures has slowed, the oceans have taken up heat at a faster rate since the turn of the century. Over 90 percent of the overall extra heat goes into the oceans, with only about 2 percent heating the Earth’s atmosphere. The myth of the ‘pause’ is based on ignoring 98 percent of global warming and focusing exclusively on the one bit that’s slowed."

"Trenberth and Fasullo found that after the massive El Niño event in 1998, the Pacific Ocean appears to have shifted into a new mode of operation. Since that time, Trenberth’s research has shown that the deep oceans have absorbed more heat than at any other time in the past 50 years.

As a recent paper published in the journal Nature showed, the Pacific Ocean in particular appears to be the key component of the climate’s natural internal variability, and the main culprit behind the slowed global surface warming over the past 15 years. However, another important recent paper by Kevin Cowtan and Robert Way showed that the global surface temperature rise has not slowed as much as some previously thought; in fact, the surface warming since 1997 happened more than twice as fast as previous estimates."

In any case, the main point of the paper is that global warming is stuck on fast forward. Ice continues to melt, sea levels continue to rise, and the oceans continue to warm rapidly. While the warming of global surface temperatures has slowed somewhat, that appears to primarily be due to changing ocean cycles, particularly in the Pacific. However, these changes are mostly just causing the oceans to absorb more heat, leaving less for the atmosphere. As Trenberth and Fasullo conclude, “[Global warming] is very much alive but being manifested in somewhat different ways than a simple increase in global mean surface temperature.”

What could those "different ways" be? Well warmer ocean temperatures generally means more water vapor gets into the air, and that means more and/or bigger storms, flooding, a warmer Arctic, etc.

http://scholarsandrogues.com/2013/12/09/faux-pause-climate-contrarians-lose-favorite-talking-point/
"contrarians have been heavily (and somewhat successfully) asserting that the world isn’t warming, that global warming has paused.

While this has always been a blatantly misleading argument that deliberately confuses short-term variation with long-term trends, a new study makes it perfectly clear that the world has warmed.

Contrarians focused on the rate of warming since 1998, which was an exceptionally hot year due to climate change and El Nino. This makes later years appear to be relatively cool, and is a form of lying with statistics. They draw a line on a graph showing the rate of warming from that unnatural peak in 1998 to now, and make it look like warming has continued at a steady pace, and not accelerated as expected (an argument that would fail any Statistics 101 class, as it ignores “regression to the mean”).

With this cherry-picked and statistically laughable graph in hand they cry “Global warming has paused! The climate models have failed!” as though the rate of acceleration of temperatures is somehow going to make or break the fact that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a greenhouse gas. This would be quite the achievement, considering CO2’s greenhouse characteristics have been known since the 1820’s!"

'Debunked'? Hardly.

Remember, these scientists assured us *repeatedly* that surface temperatures were just going to get warmer and warmer, without end. The science was 'settled', remember? And now that surface temperatures are *not* increasing as predicted (the passages you quote mention this several times, so let's not pretend that it isn't so), they've been casting around for a new place to hide the heat, and they've settled on the ocean, which has somehow magically increased its heat absorption at the expense of the atmosphere?

Let's face it...they don't know what the hell they're doing, and they've been lying to us all along trying to convince us that they do. Like many liars they've been tripped up by reality...and it is bound to happen again.

Of course there's year to year variation. But the trend was always to be inexorably upward, which is not what we're seeing now. The scientific community has already acknowledged this reality, why are you still trying to deny it?

Two YouTube videos and a website I've never heard of? If that's all you've got, you might want to reconsider your position.

Not that it matters...we've already passed 'peak panic', and we're on the downslope now. Australia has already called shenanigans on the whole affair, and I imagine the rest of the world will be following shortly. You guys had a good scam going, you just couldn't seal the deal before reality tripped you up. Better luck next time.

We know CO2 is a greenhouse gas, there is more of it in the atmosphere and more of it being emitted. How the atmosphere handles this is the question.

When there are stronger tornadoes and hurricanes, the atmosphere is releasing heat energy. When the arctic warms the permafrost gives off more methane, which is an even stronger greenhouse gas.

I don't understand the debate, we have to know burning fossil fuels that have been sequestered over millions of years in less than 100 years will have an effect, that is obvious.

Worried about CC? A Global Tax isn't going to help. Join one of the plant-a-tree organizations; there are several.
Use Google. Sequester all you want. I do it. You can put your money where your mouth is; you don't have to have bureaucrats confiscate your wages if you have a heart for it. There are: NationalForests(dot)org, PlantaBillion(dot)org, PlantaTreeUSA(dot)com, Arbor Day Foundation, Plant a Tree in Israel (jnf[dot]org), and several others. Take a day off from blogging about it and do something constructive if that's where your belief lies. Running around screaming thru bullhorns and carrying signs is just 'look, see pidgen'.

Naysayers and non-believers normally have hidden reasons not to admit well known facts and to continuously blame politicians and governments.

To admit that they were wrong is too much for their ego. Instead, they continue with their negation till they die, often from things they refuse to admit for most of their life.