Siberian Heatwave Wrecks Sea Ice as Greenland High Settles In, page-18

The data graphed clearly illustrate that something happened around 2000. That there may have been a linear trend prior to 2000 does not justify applying a continuous linear trend over this period of data. There is clearly a discontinuity. It is this abuse of statistics that indicates that Climastrologists are hell bent on making the data fit their models, if for no other reason than their models can't handle non-linearities.