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Originally Posted by Bobblehead

No, it doesn't say that the world cooled off. It said one datapoint was significantly higher. If the Flames scored 2 goals a game every game, then score 10 goals in one game and after that score 4 goals a game it doesn't mean that they are worse goal scorers now than they were in that one game. It just means that game was out of the norm and should be identified. But overall the Flames scored more goals now on average than they did.

So you're saying we should ignore the data from 1998 to 2005 because it is out of the norm?

I realize the temperature is overall going up, but 1998 was a warmer year then 2005, and if anything, we are producing more CO2 in 2005, then we were in 1998.

I realize its a very, very small sample size, and in the big picture it might mean nothing, but I find it intriguing that 1998 was the warmest year EVER, and even the 21st century with all our enviromental problems has not been as warm as 1998.

So you grab the one section for the mid-troposhpere and totally ignore the rest of the summary? You know the part that deals with the globe as a whole (from your link):

Actually, I was only going to post the section that referred to..

The faster rate of recession of tropical mountain glaciers in the last twenty years than might have been expected from the MSU and radiosonde records remains unexplained, though some glaciers may still be responding to the warming indicated by radiosondes that occurred around 1976 to 1981.