Bearing in mind their previous hubris
about short -
term cycles being manmade, their gross, unproven assumption
about CO2 as a climate driver and the fact that the signal is far less than the error bars in the
noise then why would anyone think that the
long -
term trend is anything other than just a separate upswinging natural cycle?
As SkS has discussed at length with Dr. Pielke Sr., over short timeframes on the order of a decade, there is too much
noise in the data to draw any definitive conclusions
about changes in the
long -
term trend.