claim: [ T ]he raw data, the actual thermometer data[ ... ] shows that the US has been cooling for 80 to 90 years.
evidence: The reconstruction found significant variability around a long-term cooling trend of −0.02 °C per century, as expected from orbital forcing, interrupted in the 20th century by rapid warming which stood out from the whole period, with the 1990s the warmest decade, and 1998 the warmest year, at moderately high levels of confidence.