So are you convinced [...]
Nope. I'm merely convinced that the existence of the hiatus in the measured temperatures isn't very strong evidence of anything beyond itself. Very similar effects can be produced by noise; therefore seeing such an effect isn't good evidence of anything more than noise. Of course it might have some more interesting cause, but if want to see better evidence to be convinced that it does.
Eh?
The trouble with merely pointing at things and saying "Behold!" rather than making an actual argument is that teen your readers need to guess what argument you're hinting at. In this case the best guess I could come up with seemed unlikely, which is why I wrote "I take it you're saying something more sensible than ..., but what?". Perhaps you might explain what you did have in mind?
I'm merely convinced that the existence of the hiatus in the measured temperatures isn't very strong evidence of anything beyond itself.
So, in this thread, who are you arguing against? Did someone say "this hiatus certainly means X"?
The trouble with merely pointing at things and saying "Behold!" rather than making an actual argument
If you were to bother looking at the start of this subthread, you would have seen that the original issue was
...the disagreement was just over the existence of a recent hiatus in land-ocean surface tem
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
Notes for future OT posters:
1. Please add the 'open_thread' tag.
2. Check if there is an active Open Thread before posting a new one. (Immediately before; refresh the list-of-threads page before posting.)
3. Open Threads should be posted in Discussion, and not Main.
4. Open Threads should start on Monday, and end on Sunday.