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Old 04-03-2013, 05:20 PM   #653 (permalink)
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From the article above

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One often hears the statement in the media that global warming stopped in 1998, or that there has been no global warming for the past 16 years. Why pick 16 years? Why not some nice round number like 20 years? Or better yet, 30 years, since the climate is generally defined as the average weather experienced over a period of 30 years or longer?
NOAA did - they chose the start and the period.
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