And so, over the decade, alarmist climate scientists tried to fool the public by stonewalling («it's the warmest decade on
record,» which doesn't mean the decade was warming), denying the facts («the allegation that annual
global mean temperatures stopped increasing during the past decade has no basis in reality»), or
outright lying («the world is warming even more quickly than we had thought»).
That some people may be motivated to prove
global warming and others may be motivated to prove there is no
global warming, there is no justification for ignoring the temperature
record outright or using purely naive methods.