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[kandrathe]

Has anyone looked at why this "eleven year" figure seems to come up a lot?

Yes, if you looked at a 20 year trend we'd be slightly higher. If you look over 100 years, we'd be much higher which also doesn't account for the fact we are still emerging from the little ice age.

What Carlin was saying (as I guess everyone else) is that temperature has many factors of which CO2 may be a lesser problem. There appears (based on the 11 year trend) that there is not a direct correlation between temperature and CO2 levels. Maybe our bigger problem is aerosol emissions. Then in 5 or 10 years, after we've chased this rabbit, the science will reveal we've ignored the bigger threat for the red herring of CO2 abatement.