Did you not listen to anything. You start at todays date/temp and work backwards( in the satellite data as shown) to establish the length of time temp change/ variation is indistinguishable from Zero.. The peak you refer to is the end point, not the start point.Do I have to type slowly.? I even gave you a link to a discussion comparing RSS and UAH data and different data sets.
eg:
The details for several sets are below.
For UAH: Since June 1996: CI from -0.037 to 2.244
(Dr. McKitrick says the warming is not significant for 16 years on UAH.)
For RSS: Since December 1992: CI from -0.018 to 1.774
(Dr. McKitrick says the warming is not significant for 26 years on RSS.)
For Hadcrut4.3: Since April 1997: CI from -0.010 to 1.154
(Dr. McKitrick said the warming was not significant for 19 years on Hadcrut4.2 going to April. Hadcrut4.3 would be slightly shorter however I do not know what difference it would make to the nearest year.)
For Hadsst3: Since December 1994: CI from -0.007 to 1.723
For GISS: Since February 2000: CI from -0.043 to 1.336
Note that all of the above times, regardless of the source, with the exception of GISS are larger than 15 years which NOAA deemed necessary to “create a discrepancy with the expected present-day warming rate”.
