The fact that the observed long term trend shows warming strongly suggests that there isn't an underlying long term cooling trend and the overall warming is unlikely to be due to natural variability. (realclimate.org)
So the point to remember when considering short term cooling trends in surface temperature records is that the atmosphere is only one small part of a planet which is in energy imbalance. (skepticalscience.com)
Not only is the sun not contributing to global warming, it has had a slight, long term cooling effect. (skepticalscience.com)