# Has the world actually been cooling since 2002?

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**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [February 19, 2014, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-world-actually-been-cooling-since-2002/681728 "2014-02-19T19:32:05Z")
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### Author: ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2014, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-world-actually-been-cooling-since-2002/681728/703 "2014-03-11T06:41:07Z")

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> With lots of caveats, and even taking into account that it may not had been.

But based on the available measurements, you agreed there is a pause, right?

It’s possible the heat is in a place not being measured, and it’s possible something else is going on, either way scientists don’t really know what’s up. They have some hypothesis, but nothing confirmed.

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> That is really a point only creationists would be proud, not all controversies are sensible. Like \*\*wolfpup \*\*said, what FX did was pointless.

You’re the one that called it controversial.

You remember that right?

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> Again, you said global, when his op was really about the northern hemisphere, winters and just surface temperatures. Of course, he can claim to be discussing the NH when pressured, but as you showed, the idea was to make others think that it was a global deal.

The OP discussed the global mean, the NH winters and the SH summers and a variety of other data.

Why don’t you just come out and tell me what **FX** is implying?

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