The fraction of individual records that
indicates the highest temperatures during 1971 — 2000 decreases with increasing record length, consistent with an
overall cooling trend over the past two millennia»
I do think, however, that it is significant (short term, not a firm trend) that CO2, as measured at MLO, has been increasing at a smaller rate than in previous years despite the fact that
overall anthropogenic CO2 output is not decreasing and, furthermore, that the short term trend of the absolute increase is also down which
indicates a greater rate of absorption of CO2 than in previous years — which to me would
indicate an ongoing
cooling of the oceans as per the theory that a
cooling ocean absorbs more CO2 while a warming ocean releases more CO2.