Would you please post the source of this quotation? And, ummm,
> the world not warming NOW is not proof against any long-term
> trend, is it?
I believe it's from an article in der Spiegel which, needless to say, puts recent developments in context:
"Perhaps we suggested too strongly in the past that the development will continue going up along a simple, straight line. In reality, phases of stagnation or even cooling are completely normal," says Latif. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,662092,00.html
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."