Even with interspaced cooling periods the overall trend in the climatoligists data sugests a series of ever increasing high average temperature spikes of increasing duration and intensity to be occuring in recent history.
Geological findings have told us what extremes in atmospheric composition and temperature the planet has previously experienced as well as various durations of each and can provide workable models for possible effects postulated climate changes can mean for us and our posterity.
Where as meterological data apears to be sugesting something else entirely at present.
That warming is and has been occuring isnt nessesarally in question in my book.
What is in question and where I find the 'evidence" lacking or contravertibley hazy, is in the conclussion (not vertible evidence of repeatable peer reviewed experiments) that the warming is a direct or sole result of humanity's presence and or that the warming is going to continue unabated becuase of us if we dont change everything yesterday.
This does not mean that I am saying we don't or can't contribute to it, it simpley means I dont see any real proof as of yet that we are the sole cuase.
Eaither way I believe as previously stated several times in the thread, that we can and should reduce and change the way we pollute our enviroment and that we should expand technologically away from non-renewable scources of energy production and be ready for possible conditions that may occur if and when certian climatic thresholds are reached.