`  ::: WMC, are you, or are you not an author of the March 2008 article discussing a renewed interest in global cooling in an attempt to debunk it? If you are not, say so. If you are, you've perpetrated a dishonest bit of griefing here, raising spurious objections on a subject you yourself have written about and know perfectly well is a real phenomenon. You can say that they're wrong but you can't airbrush them out of existence, especially when you've already written about theme on your own group blog.   :::There really isn't anything left to discuss with you on this topic until you clear up whether or not you are one of the authors of the 3/2008 RealClimate article on global cooling. I would have been open to reasonable improvements in saying the obvious including using your own article (if it is yours) as a RS. Instead you've given no effort to improve, merely to stand in the way of any change recognizing the obvious, that there are those who say that the 10 year (not 8 as you tried to shift the discussion to) graph shows cooling and they tend to use the HADCRUT3 data. I see that finally you're making some sort of nebulous concession that some sort of ``weaker`` version could possibly pass muster with you after multiple weeks of stonewalling but that's not nearly good enough if you've known all along about this and have been coming at the topic dishonestly, hiding your expertise on the subject in order to slow down the improvement of the article.   `