A Cooling Trend?

I'm currently reading abit on all the hubbub about the hacked emails from the Climate Research Center in England, which is proving to be a new scandel dubbed 'Climategate.' I'll try to report back occasionally on what I'm finding.

One of the things I'm reading is of a cooling trend for the last several years that I wasn't aware of (although we did have a very cool summer this year here in NC). Here is a post that talks about it. Here is another. And here is another in the respectable journal New Scientist.

Go figure. This is all a bit disorienting. But given my contrarian nature, I'm always up for new information and ideas.