Except that it's increasing.
Interesting that a Chinaman is flogging the scam.
A Chinese scholar working for the Scripps Institution, apparently, an entity almost entirely dependent on government grants for funding. It is really no surprise.
In today's fallen world, research follows the money not the science. Therefore, it is no surprise that when nature refuses to conform to the politically correct computer model, it isn't the model that is wrong. Rather, some innocent natural phenomenon — like the temperature cycle of the oceans — must take the blame.