Or rather what little warming did occur before that date was being dumped into the low thermal mass of the atmosphere? (skepticalscience.com)
The slope of the temperature decline with height will be determined by the strength of the gravitational field acting on the entire mass of the atmosphere. (newclimatemodel.com)
billev @ 35, the dry mass of the atmosphere is 5.352 x 10 ^ 18 kg. (skepticalscience.com)