It is only divided down if you choose to divide it down. John McCain, Republican, was quite a proponent of warning about global warming threats until the polls in his home state told him otherwise and his national ambition was thwarted. .. and yes, you can have it both ways, there are peaks and troughs in global temperature, just as there are bubbles and crashes in stock markets around the world. The general trend for both are up in the long term, as they would be in a man made world that is growing.
http://www.murdoconline.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/gisp2-ice-core-temperatures.jpg this was just posted on another thread. there is no warming if you look back 10,000 years.
Here's a good one for the global warming frauds: The Volcanic Mount Pinatubo Eruption of 1991 that Cooled the Planet ejected 15 - 30 million tons of sulfur dioxide gas Ozone hole over Antarctica reached an unprecedented size the entire planet was cooled 0.4 to 0.5°C
Don't believe the alarmists that the artic and antartic ice sheets are melting. http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/tech-mainmenu-30/environment/2871-are-the-ice-caps-melting
from your article... "Data collections at the University of Illinois confirm summer sea ice in the Arctic reached a 30-year minimum in 2007, but they also prove the largely unreported fact that summer sea ice spread in the Antarctic reached a 30-year maximum the same year. "
"Skeptics of global warming point to some Patagonia glaciers that remain stable, or that are even growing, such as Argentinaâs Perito Moreno Glacier. But Gino Casassa, director of Glacier and Climate Change Research at the Valdivia, Chileâbased Center for Scientific Studies, says that global warming can also lead to more rain, or snow in the case of regions such as Patagonia. Studies from NASA show that the Patagonian Ice Fields, which extend some 6,600 square miles altogether and are the third-largest continental ice sheet in the world, after Antarctica and Greenland, account for about 9 percent of annual global sea-level change from mountain glaciers. âThere is scientific evidence showing a new cycle of activity in GLOFs, and not just Lago Cachet. Glaciers are melting and lakes growing in size throughout Patagoniaâa clear sign of global warming,â says Casassa." http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/01/lakes-disappearing-after-glacial-outburst-floods.html