NEWSWEEK SHOULD GO UNDER

NEWSWEEK allowed Stefan Theil to write denialist agit-prop in "Uncertain Science," 5/28/2010. Theil wrote this nonsense:

In addition, scientists are not sure how to explain a slowdown in the rise of global temperatures that began about a decade ago.

There hasn't been a slowdown! This is from NASA:

2009: Second Warmest Year on Record; End of Warmest Decade

Jan. 21, 2010

2009 was tied for the second warmest year in the modern record, a new NASA analysis of global surface temperature shows. The analysis, conducted by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City, also shows that in the Southern Hemisphere, 2009 was the warmest year since modern records began in 1880.

Although 2008 was the coolest year of the decade, due to strong cooling of the tropical Pacific Ocean, 2009 saw a return to near-record global temperatures. The past year was only a fraction of a degree cooler than 2005, the warmest year on record, and tied with a cluster of other years — 1998, 2002, 2003, 2006 and 2007 1998 and 2007 — as the second warmest year since record keeping began.