<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">As one wag put it, BBC "weather presenter" blogs; credulous BBC editor reprints.<br>
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Full rebuttal here: <br><br>
<span><a target="_blank" href="http://climateprogress.org/2009/10/13/the-bbc-hudson-what-happened-to-global-warming-hottest-decade-in-recorded-history/">http://climateprogress.org/2009/10/13/the-bbc-hudson-what-happened-to-global-warming-hottest-decade-in-recorded-history/</a></span><br><br>Or, as Britain's own Met Office put it, there is no "cooling trend":<br><br>… trends over the past 10 years show only a 0.07 °C increase in global average temperature. Although this is only a small increase, it indicates that there has been no global cooling over this period. In fact, over the past decade, most years have remained much closer to the record global average temperature reached in 1998 than to temperatures before the 1970s. All the years from 2000 to 2008 have been in the top 14 warmest years on record.<br><br>Ron Force<br>Moscow ID USA<br>
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