On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:15:02 +0000, Joe Egginton wrote:

Without AGW would this present cold period, be much colder ?

Irelevant this winter is "weather" not "climate".

The decadedal temps published recently in here where interesting
fairly steady for the first 80 years, then the last couple of
decades, relatively large decade on decade rises.

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Cheers Dave.
Nr Garrigill, Cumbria. 421m ASL.