[Swordmaker]

Sadly, there is a 100 year upward trend in global temperatures.

Doesn't look like it from this graph from NASA:

Compared to the admittedly less accurate graphs of older temperature variation, there doesn't seem to be much difference in the ups and downs in amplitude or frequency... I'd say we are in a normal climate upswing, now turning to a downswing. The one thing that does seem to parallel the global temperature mean is solar activity... and we are now in an almost six month long solar sun spot activity minimum... and temperatures are falling.

Even during the plateau from 1945 to 1976 the seas continued rising and the glaciers continued retreating.

The glaciers that are retreating are a minority... on the Indian sub-continent, only 10 out of over 400 glaciers are retreating. Which ones get the media attention? The ten.

[gondramB]

That graph (and other's like it) led to what I now call the plateua between 1945 and 1976. At the time it looked like it might signal an end to the increase or even a decline.

But with out additional data, it now looks like a plateau in the middle of a 100 year increase.

[Publius6961]

Even during the plateau from 1945 to 1976 the seas continued rising and the glaciers continued retreating.
The glaciers that are retreating are a minority... on the Indian sub-continent, only 10 out of over 400 glaciers are retreating. Which ones get the media attention? The ten.

I am sorry to see you falling into the trap that the losers set for us: arguing short term-trends and calling it "climate".
First you make the correct assertion that that is sophistry of the first order, then you go on to "argue" about a 31-year (0MG!) trend...