It seems that the bottom line is that you can get whatever trend you want to get just by playing with the time interval and the data set. Global temperature is about same now as it was in the 1930s, cooler than it was in the Medieval Warm Period or the Roman Warm Period, cooler than it was in 1998, but on the other hand warmer than it was in the Little Ice Age. The Earth warms, the Earth cools, and so what? The long-term trend is certainly toward cooler temperatures. Some puny little SUVs aren't going to stop the Milankovitch cycles.