bb_apptix (#13)
Global warming is continuing despite all the claims that it has stopped. Climate change is also a perfectly acceptable thing to call it. It's your side of the argument that's making a big fuss over semantics.
2010 is tied as the warmest year in the instrument record. The way things are shaping up with a probable El Nino and peaking of the current solar cycle 2012 is almost a sure thing to set a new all time record unless there is a very large volcanic eruption.
The Earth has not been warming since "the peak of the last ice age." The temperature hit a peak about 9,000 years ago during the Holocene climatic optimum and has generally been slowly declining since then... until the recent spate of anthropogenically forced global warming.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_climatic_optimum#14, how many of those people in Texas and Arizona are living without air conditioning? That's not an option for many in less wealthy countries.
