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Originally Posted by Stu  Anyone will readily admit that the earth has been cold at points in the last decade or whatever time scale you want to use, and somewhere in the world, some records for coldest whatever were probably even broken, but the overall trend has been warming, and will, predictably, continue to be warming. |
No it hasn't warmed in the last 10 years. There is nothing predictable about what is happening with the climate, because temperatures have been flat if not cooler since 1998, the hottest year on record.
3 of 4 global metrics show nearly flat temperature anomaly in the last decade « Watts Up With That?
You want to know by far the biggest deciding factor in the Earth's climate? I'll give you a hint, it weighs about two billion billion billion tons and has its own nuclear reactor. It's the Sun.
The Sun by far outweighs and outstrips any effects humans could possibly have on Earth's climate. The Sun is ignored by global warming proponents; at great peril: The current cool period this past year has correlated with a shutdown in the sunspot cycle on the sun. It could start back up at any time, but some experts are starting to wonder.
The last time the sunspot cycle shutdown for a prolonged period, it resulted in the Maunder Minium (
Maunder Minimum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) This resulted in drastic cooling in Earth's climate known as the Little Ice Age.
If the new sunspot cycle doesn't start up soon, we could be in for Global Cooling, not warming.
What Global Warming?