It is true it’s the warmest decade on record, but the “record” only goes back 160 years – and it does not follow that the long-term warming trend has not abated because of this fact. Actually, a quick look at the data shows that Trenberth is either dishonest or refuses to look at data that contradicts his religious views.

A quick trip over to woodfortrees.org to graph the data from Hadley shows that the temperature has in fact declined over the past decade: