On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:34:22 +0100
Graeme Wall wrote:
Oh really? How come we've had some of the the hottest years on record in the
last few decades then? How does that square with a cooling trend exactly?

IIRC we are midway along a warming-cooling curve, ie at the warmest
point so it should be getting cooler from now on. Trouble is it is a
42000 year cycle so it will be 10000 years or so before we notice.

Presumably most of that 42000 cycle is cooling then given how quickly the
warming happened in the last 200 years because if it cooled as fast we'll
be at absolute zero long before the end of the cycle.

B2003