The skeptical side of the AGW argument has been pushing back, claiming that the world is actually cooling. I just found a new page on the Skeptical Science website that concisely explains why this "global cooling in the past decade" is a bunch of baloney.

Further, it deflates the denialist argument that "the models didn't predict this cooling, therefore the models are worthless", because there has not been cooling-

http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-c...

"To say we're currently experiencing global cooling overlooks one simple physical reality - the land and atmosphere are only one small fraction of the Earth's climate (albeit the part we inhabit). Global warming is by definition global. The entire planet is accumulating heat due to an energy imbalance. The atmosphere is warming. Oceans are accumulating energy. Land absorbs energy and ice absorbs heat to melt. To get the full picture on global warming, you need to view the Earth's entire heat content."

and

"How does this value compare to other estimates of energy imbalance? Hansen 2005, using ocean heat data, calculated the planet's energy imbalance around 2003 to be 0.85 Wm−2. Trenberth 2009 examined satellite measurements of incoming and outgoing radiation for the March 2000 to May 2004 period and found the planet accumulating energy at a rate of 0.9 ± 0.15 Wm−2.

All these estimates are consistent with each other. Most importantly, all find a statistically significant positive energy imbalance. The empirical data has spoken. The planet is still accumulating heat. Global warming is still happening."

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Simple charts and graphs are included at the above website for the empirically challenged...













(Now, does anyone want to place bets on the skeptics saying "it's the volcanoes!!!"?)