Of course it's vital that the atmosphere contains some Co2, I'm not for ridding the atmosphere of Co2. But like anything vital to life, including oxygen, too much of it is damaging. I don't think a conclusion can be extrapolated from such a small selection of data, certainly not an accurate one. It seems to me that every study trying to find flaws in climate change select their data very carefully. I mean, why did they pick 7 years? it seems like a fairly arbitrary time frame to look at with no real reasoning behind it. Whats so special about 7 years? Other than the fact that this is the time frame required to support the point they are trying to make. Anything other than 7 years wont show that climate change has halted, it will show the exact opposite. and that is the only reason they picked the last 7 years to draw their data from. I don't know about you, but when the data is selected to support the conclusion it makes me very suspicious of the conclusion.
It's finding flaws in man made global warming not climate change. http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/images/surface_temps.gif What's significant about the last 100 years if there were clearly rises and dips throughout the last 1,100 years?
there is always going to be rises and dips, we are talking about climate, it's never going to be a constant, it's a very complex system. The conclusion needs to be drawn from the trend, and the trend indicates that, even though there are rises and dips, global temperature in increasing. There have been increases in global climate throughout history, mostly due to volcanic eruptions and the ending of ice ages releasing methane trapped in ice, but it doesn't mean it isn't happening again due to us pumping Co2 in the atmosphere.
With the economic recession and terrorism all over.... the global warming issue has taken a back seat..... this is not good..... we should concentrate more on global warming, that is the biggest threat.....
For anyone that is interested, I just finished reading a fascinating book called the Chilling Stars by Henrik Svensmark. It was written by actual physcists, and deals with the effects of sub atomic particles and our climate.