From Powerline:
The analysis of the past 2500 years involved data from tree rings, sediment cores, stalagmites, etc. A plot of the data yields a climate operating with cyclic behavior. Compared to the maxima and minima of the past, the current minima and maxima show that there is nothing unusual happening today. The scientists say today’s temperature changes are within the normal range. The German authors write: “Especially the 20th century shows nothing out of the ordinary.”
and from Watts Up With That, the Pause:
Figure 1. The least-squares linear-regression trend on the RSS satellite monthly global mean surface temperature anomaly dataset shows no global warming for 18 years 8 months since January 1997, though one-third of all anthropogenic forcings occurred during the period of the Pause.
Note to Bruce Currie – this data, satellite data, goes untouched or “homogenization” like terrestrial data is (pretty much all the time and pretty much, all “necessary adjustments” to that latter data moves the thermometer upward). More data at the link at WUWT.
