The result; a long upwards
trend, instead of one more fairly representing the ups and downs we can observe
over a thousand years, with the current warming
trend starting around 1700, making Giss a staging post of increasing
warmth and not the starting post.
The first decade of this century was the warmest on record for more than a century, part of a
trend in increasing
warmth over the past 50 years, according to the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.