Another way of visualizing the temperature

[mackdaddy]

8. It will be "interesting" to see where this graph goes over the next few years.

This years spike in temperature looks like the 1998 el nino spike that the deniers used for the supposed "pause".

With some of the stored ocean heat energy released, the global temperature may drop for a year or two like in previous events. This of course if this happens it will be used by the deniers as the end of global warming, if this occurs.

But I think that it may be possible that we have reached a new phase and we may NOT see a dip or even pause in the global temperature rise. We may have activated enough of the positive feedback loops predicted to just keep going up at unprecedented rates.

Not that we can do much about this now, just interesting to speculate since this graph is pretty much charting the end of civilization as well as global temperature trends.....