Dataset of datasets shows no warming this millennium

What the article is doing is this:

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If you cherry-pick your time periods, you can lie to people about the overall data while making individual statements that are each true or sort of close to true.

"no temperature change from 1970 to 1975!"

"no temperature change from 1980 to 1985!"

And so on. Articles like this should be deleted from Hacker News, along with the users that post them.

You can't measure global warming on 10 year scale. There are a multitude of other factors such as sol's 11 years cycle and Earth wobble that can counteract global warming or manifest a cooling down trend over short time intervals.

Few things depress me more than climate denialists. They're the real life equivalent of http://gunshowcomic.com/648

For more information about Christopher Monckton, the author of this article, please see http://www.desmogblog.com/christopher-monckton and http://www.skepticalscience.com/Monckton_Myths_blog.htm

He's a well-known climate change denier whose views and writings have been widely debunked.