That's what the skeptics want you to think. If we're in a cooling trend, why are the average temperatures of the period 2000-2008 higher than those from 1990-2000?
Read my profile, point #4, paragraph beginning "Quote from the above". If you wish to defer telling me that I'm wrong until 2013, that's fine with me. As it stands, I am confident that the average global temperature of the years 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 -- when calculated -- will be higher than the average global temperature of 1998. The only things that I think would render this prediction inaccurate are: a) a major Pinatubo-class or bigger volcanic eruption; b) another La Nina similar to the one this year or bigger; c) a major asteroid strike, or d) significant nuclear war. If (c) or (d) happen, we won't be worrying about climate change for a few years. Please note that I am unworried by anything the Sun does.
In February 2014, feel free to evaluate my statement. Evaluating climate trends requires patience. That's just the way it is.
A cooling trend simply means that the temperatures are trending downwards. They have been for the last 10 years. If you plot the temperatures from 1998 to 2007 and do a linear fit you'll have a straight line that is trending downward. We certainly are not trending upward and that is their entire hypothesis of global warming as CO2 increases is for a CONSTANT upward trend. The empirical data does not support the global warming hypothesis.
I think you should not post on this topic until 2014.