During this cooling trend, there were
several warm spikes, usually associated with life - enhancing inflows of both warm Pacific and Atlantic water.
Not exact matches
However, the
several month long 1998
spike was seized on by alarmists as proof the climate was
warming out of control.
Even assuming lolwot is right, the recent
spike is still a lot smaller than
several ones earlier in the Holocene, even though just greater than the Mideval
Warm Period, by a whisker, thus justifying «The Mann's» Nobel Peace Prize.
Rather, it is because the warmth in these different regions was not synchronous, which means that when you average over the whole hemisphere, you get a broad, diffuse bump rather than the more dramatic
spike we get over the past
several decades when most places have
warmed with a large degree of synchronicity.