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Jim Manzi defends George Will: “There has not been a lot of measured warming for the last ten years.”  But that’s just not true.  A fifth of a degree in the trendline is still a fifth of a degree in the trendline, even if you post a chart that uses a shorter timespan and displays the results by month instead of by year.

Now, it is true that the single year 2008 was cooler than the single year 1998.  It’s also true that there hasn’t been much warming over the past six years.  Noisy data can usually provide any answer you want if you cherry pick it well enough.  But neither of these things is the same as demonstrating that there’s been no warming during the past decade.  There has been.  About a fifth of a degree.

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