[mvpel]

If the earth has been cooling for the past 10 years, how can it be the warmest decade?

Simple. "Hide the decline."

[ClearCase_guy]

From the CRU data dump:
From: Phil Jones xxxxxxxx To: John Christy xxxxxxxx Subject: This and that Date: Tue Jul 5 15:51:55 2005 “The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998. OK it has but it is only 7 years of data and it isn’t statistically significant.”