It's talking about the general flattening of the temperature trend in the last decade or two. Try this: http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/wti http://www.woodfor

It's talking about the general flattening of the temperature trend in the last decade or two. Try this: http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/wti http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/wti The default woodfortrees index averages a bunch of different global temperature series so you don't have to pick just one. (It starts in 1979 because that's when we first had satellite coverage.) If you try to plot a linear rate from that, the trend depends on what year you start from. From some starting years the trend is increasing (though less than predicted) but from other starting years the trend is flat or even decreasing. For an example of the latter, here's a trendline for the last ten years: http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/wti/from:2003/plot/wti/from:2003/trend http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/wti/from:2003/plot/wti/from...