Click here for a larger view Except that the "business end" of this hockey stick is pointing in the other direction than Gore's was pointing. It's going almost straight down, baby - and Viagra isn't going to help.
The staff here at GL took the liberty of slightly altering
Dr. Roy Spencer's graph here of his UAH Globally Averaged Satellite-Based Temperature of the Lower Atmosphere (Jan. 1979-May 2008).
Dr. Spencer highlighted the Mt. Pinatubo cooling and the 1998 El Nino warming, and our graphics department added the release date of Al Gore's science fiction movie. Much to our amusement, it shows that the temperature has dropped approximately .58 degrees Celsius (1.04 degrees Fahrenheit) since his movie's release.