Yeah, take out the last few years and look at it. Pretty flat. Not much of a trend line, and the slope could differ depending on your slice. Also, keep in mind

Yeah, take out the last few years and look at it. Pretty flat. Not much of a trend line, and the slope could differ depending on your slice. Also, keep in mind that some of the hottest and worse years we've had in recent history in the US were early to mid 1900s (not sure about France). Starting the graph at 1959 is also a misleading slice. But I assume good intent, and assume that these are things you know or could discover for yourself. I've burnt enough karma on this (which is weird that I care about), and honestly have just become a bit exhausted by the partisan comments and downvoting on here. I just keep getting called mean things, and it's hand waved away by comments like yours, like, because I tend to look at things from a lot of angles and don't accept any particular "winner" or "accepted truth", I'm in "bad company", whatever that means, so it's ok to call me things and be mean. It's ok, it's not just you. It's really common on HN recently. It's time I took a break anyway, so thanks for giving me the little push I needed.