As a result of the absence of any recorded 21st century warming trend, the formulation now favoured by climate campaigners is that the last decade has been the warmest since records began. It is rather as if the world’s population had stopped rising and all the demographers could say was that global population had been the highest ever recorded.
Lord Lawson of Blaby on the recent statement of the Met Office that the decade 1999-2009 is the ‘hottest since the 1850s’
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