Responding to and in the manner
of KK Tung's UPDATE (and, you can quote me): globally
speaking the slowing
of the rapidity
of the warming, were it absent an enhanced hiatus compared to prior hiatuses, must at the least be interpreted as nothing more than a slowdown
of the positive trend
of uninterrupted global warming
coming out
of the Little
Ice Age that has been «juiced» by AGW as evidenced by rapid warming during the last three decades
of the 20th Century, irrespective
of the fact that, «the modern Grand maximum (which occurred during solar cycles 19 — 23, i.e., 1950 - 2009),» according to Ilya Usoskin, «was a rare or even unique event, in both magnitude and duration, in the past three millennia [that's, 3,000 years].»