re: #296 allbusiness

2009/2008 has been cooling. Here is the link. The quote I am referring to is at 5:05 where the narrator states that we are in a cooling period due to the El Nina cycles. By the way, Charles posted this a few threads back. If 2009 is on track to be the fifth hottest year ever recorded and we are in a temperature decline due to the El Nino/Nina cycles…

I can’t make heads or tails of this information. If we weren’t cooling because of el Nino, would this have been the fourth hottest year ever recorded? Since we are on a down-trend due to el Nino, was the year before the fourth hottest? And when did first, second and third take place?