>> Why aren’t we cooling off? Maybe because we are just barely past a high in the sunspot cycle. <<
That hardly explains the fact that we haven’t been cooling off for a couple thousand years.
>> And, it’s the wrong question anyway. <<
It depends what your interests are.
>> Why was the global warming rate higher before the 1950’s than it was after? <<
It’s not. That was true in the late 1980s, when skepticism of global warming began.
>> Global warming should be zooming up now that the economies of China and India are zooming up, but it isn’t. <<
This much is true, but I’d caution you the same way I’d caution the global warming alarmists: Don’t use single-factor analyses or short time frames to detect long-term trends. We’re discussing climate change, not weather change.
>> In regard to the man-made GW theory, the question isn’t why aren’t we cooling, but why aren’t we warming in the last decade. The sun-made GW theory is clear that the Sun is at a peak, warming should be slowing, and cooling to happen some years ahead. <<
True, but again: don’t look, in experiential data, for any easy confirmation in a given theory for the next few decades.
Where in the world do you get this logic? That we are at a current high in the sunspot cycle does explain the current warming. That we were at a long term low in the sunspot cycle in the 1700s does explain the nasty winter at Valley Forge.
We are still cooler than the 1400's but warmer than the 1700's. And the 1400's were cooler than the Roman Warm spell.
We've been warming and cooling a bunch over that last 2000 years, and are currently somewhere in the middle of the range of that period.