[ancient_geezer]

It pays to take a look at a graph with better resolution that shows what is currently going on.

The short term high spikes in temperature of the following graph are do to El Nino, the red line is the combined ocean & land temperature index, the black is land meteorlogical stations only.

 

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.C_lrg.gif

[secretagent]

Thanks AG.