Is the globe warming or cooling?

Found this article On Global Warming / Cooling trends on USA Today.

Numerous websites, blogs and articles in the media have claimed that the climate is no longer warming, and is now cooling since recent years have not been as warm as 1998. A new study by top climate scientists takes a look at these claims.

I think that is obvious that we are in a warming trend when you consider the increased melting of near the polar caps.

No, say two scientists in this week’s issue of Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. The scientists, David Easterling of the National Climatic Data Center and Michael Wehner of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, say that up-and-down temperatures year-to-year don’t undermine the overwhelming evidence for global warming.

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