Paul: Have a look at all of the indices by year and by decade, 1900-2012. GIDTEMP, NOAA, HADCRUT3v, HADCRUT4, BEST, NOAA, RSS, UAH. http://www.skepticalscience.com/trend.php or http://www.woodfortrees.org/
All indices show increases with wiggles corresponding to El Nino, La Nina cycles. Ocean heat content accounts for the joules of anthropogenic warming that do not appear in atmospheric temperature. Look around a bit and confirm those facts for yourself. Since you have stepped outside the science and into the political arena with the term "warmist," I will call your water-carrying for the fossil fuel industry and raise you one, you are science denier. The term "warmist" is used only by those attempting to confuse non scientists about the science of global warming. Your tiny url link is a classic in cherry picking. It is just like me saying that I'm not going bald. Just look over here at my sideburns they are growing like crazy. No hair loss at all. Regards, Don > This NOAA graph http://tinyurl.com/6ca5gzt shows global > mean temps have stabilized since 1998. That flattening of > warming was not predicted by the anthropogenic warmists > to my knowledge. > > So we could be potentially be at the same point on that > graph as we we were in 1940-1945: i.e. looking at 20-30 > more years of relatively stabilized temperatures. > > If the anthropogenic warmists on this forum don't think it's > plausible we could be looking at 20-30 more years of relatively > stabilized temperatures, then please explain why the > flattening of the warming since 1998 was not predicted in > advance. Thanks. > > Paul Cherubini > El Dorado, Calif. >