“So for us practical folks I guess it is the actual observed temperature that is the important piece of information, not the trend.”
Well prepare to be surprised when the observed temperature jumps up in coming years and you didn’t see it coming.
Because you didn’t listen. But don’t worry virtually the whole skeptic blogosphere will be shut down by that event. Hard to backpeddle after so many of you have pinned your colors to the mast of “no warming” only to have all those hated climate scientists ending up right.