Fact is, global temperatures have not been rising the past several years, but dropping. AP gathered temperatures for 100 years or so (the accuracy of this data is quite unreliable) and handed them to statisticians it hired to determine whether there was a global cooling "trend" of late. Of course, the result was quite predictable: a few years of global cooling temperatures, within the context of many more years of global warming temperatures, could not possibly indicate a cooling trend.
But this approach, in and of itself, demonstrates the fallacy of the global warming argument, i.e., a hundred year or so of temperatures within the context of five billion or so years of Earth history, cannot be used to demonostrate anything.