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So what would temperature trends over the last decade actually look like?

Well, I've used the same data set for the period from April 1998 to March 2008 (the last entry), and the above graph is the result.

The linear fit produced a warming of 0.0349044 °C for the entire decade - not much, but as this long-term graph generated from the same data set shows, 1998 was an abnormally warm year while the last winter was particularly harsh.

To sum it up, global temperatures have indeed increased during the last decade, if not as strongly as in the time before that. We will have to continue to watch the long-term trends of global temperatures - and be wary of anyone who attempts to cook the data for his own agenda.

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Continued from here.

So what would temperature trends over the last decade actually look like?

Well, I've used the same data set for the period from April 1998 to March 2008 (the last entry), and the above graph is the result.

The linear fit produced a warming of 0.0349044 °C for the entire decade - not much, but as this long-term graph generated from the same data set shows, 1998 was an abnormally warm year while the last winter was particularly harsh.

To sum it up, global temperatures have indeed increased during the last decade, if not as strongly as in the time before that. We will have to continue to watch the long-term trends of global temperatures - and be wary of anyone who attempts to cook the data for his own agenda.