However, it is unable to explain the long term warming trend over the past few decades. (skepticalscience.com)
Thus it's not unexpected that surface temperature warming has slowed, and when we account for these factors, we see that the underlying long - term warming trend continues. (skepticalscience.com)
What his paper actually proves is once you remove any long term warming trend from the temperature record, it leaves little room for any warming. (skepticalscience.com)