Still confused about climate change...

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What are you talking about?

The NOAA says that we are getting warmer and breaking records! *
"The combined average temperature across global land and ocean surfaces for August 2014 was record high for the month, at 0.75°C (1.35°F) above the 20th century average of 15.6°C (60.1°F), topping the previous record set in 1998.
The global land surface temperature was 0.99°C (1.78°F) above the 20th century average of 13.8°C (56.9°F), the second highest on record for August, behind 1998.
For the ocean, the August global sea surface temperature was 0.65°C (1.17°F) above the 20th century average of 16.4°C (61.4°F). This record high departure from average not only beats the previous August record set in 2005 by 0.08°C (0.14°F), but also beats the previous all-time record set just two months ago in June 2014 by 0.03°C (0.05°F).
The combined average global land and ocean surface temperature for the June?August period was also record high for this period, at 0.71°C (1.28°F) above the 20th century average of 16.4°C (61.5°F), beating the previous record set in 1998.
The June?August worldwide land surface temperature was 0.91°C (1.64°F) above the 20th century average, the fifth highest on record for this period. The global ocean surface temperature for the same period was 0.63°C (1.13°F) above the 20th century average, the highest on record for June?August. This beats the previous record set in 2009 by 0.04°C (0.07°F).
FROM
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/
Other factors have been ruled out by the entire world's scientific community
http://www.skepticalscience.com/solar-a ... arming.htm
* If you think the NOAA is part of a conspiracy, then what about NASA, the American Meteorological Society, the Royal Academy .... and EVERY scientific organization in the world of national and international reputation? Are they part of the conspiracy also?

Earth: Cooling since 1998. It's as simple as that.

Earth: Cooling since 1998. It's as simple as that.

They are not lying. Scientific data shows a cooling trend since 1998. Nobody disputes it.

The climate has been cooling since 1998. Stop pretending otherwise. It's just silly.

Earth: Cooling since 1998. It's as simple as that.

They are not lying. Scientific data shows a cooling trend since 1998. Nobody disputes it.

Sure, the temps have been increasing, but the planet is currently in a cooling trend.

And this confirms it... "it is getting hotter, but it is getting colder".

Indeed. But I think there?s not much need to discuss what will be the consequences of releasing so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It?ll keep being released, no matter what you do, and probably at an ever-increasing rate, till all economically accessible fossil fuels are exhausted, which doesn?t seem to be very far away in the future. We?ll see what happens when all those carbon atoms which stayed trapped underground for so many millions of years are finally part of the atmosphere and the oceans?nicely acidifying the latter?in the form of carbon dioxide.

No contradiction. Temperatures have increased in the past, but they are currently falling. We could be heading for a new ice age, which is a bit early compared to earlier pre-glacial temperature peaks. It's much too cold for that. We can only hope temperatures will rise again. The Earth's core is also getting cooler, and we will most likely freeze to death before the Sun explodes.