A Global Temperature Chart

...that's not in Al Gore's movie...

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This second image illustrates the period from 1940 through the 1970's when despite the continued rise of CO2 emissions temperatures actually cooled - and how they have levelled off or cooled slightly since 1998, while so-called greenhouse gases continue to be emitted at record levels.

More from Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters.org and from climatologist Cliff Harris and meteorologist Randy Mann at Long Range Weather.com