The pressure did get to Wiggins, but it was not stress which slowed him down but the area of atmospheric high pressure which has brought summer weather to the capital.
"Every analyst believes it's slowed our growth... Families have gone without paychecks".
But let's be clear, there are no winners here... Every analyst believes it's slowed our growth... Families have gone without paychecks.
The myth of the 'pause' is based on ignoring 98 percent of global warming and focusing exclusively on the one bit that's slowed.
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.
They are the ones who are increasingly cutting us all up (pedestrian, car or cyclist), pushing us aside or screaming at us because we've slowed down to allow a child or older person live.
The latest GDP figures for the United States suggested that the economy slowed down sharply at the turn of the year, expanding at an annual rate of just 0.2% in the first quarter of 2015.
But the conduct of the count has been heavily criticised (see 10.26pm) and has slowed down the results, not helped by ballot challenges which have forced a recount in one area (see 12.37pm).
There is no evidence that more accommodating tactics, or any of the settlements on offer, would have even slowed the rundown of coal - as the later cauterisation of those areas that broke the strike so cruelly demonstrated.
However there has been a vigorous debate about whether the increase in lower atmosphere temperatures has slowed down.
As the US backdrop steadily improved in the aftermath of the Fed's cash injection, the central bank gradually slowed its bond-buying programme from $85bn a month to $15bn a month.
