Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
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I've been mentioning that over a year ago. It's not hard to find out. Now it's worth remembering that they are a bit devious with the data, since it's only really working on year 1997. 1998 is too hot, any year before 1997 and 1999, 2000 too cold. The 0 line on that graph is also the 1901-2000 average. So it haven't been a warming up, but it's been consistantly warm.

I'll even admit that if the trend of stable (but still very warm temperature) temperatures continues or there's a significant cooling, you are right on this matter.

That's a problem with multifactor systems. It takes a long time to figure them out. You can easily have a mostly linear manmade global warming with a cyclic natural system. It would have fairly stable peroids combined with temperature bursts.