Dangerous global farce?

Every month I check the global temperature.  You can too here.

It disturbs me to read about all the people in the world and especially all the political people who have plans to make the poor poorer and everyone worse off with their costly remedies for 'global warming'.

Check the data.  The cool team just passed the hot team. 

(1) There was ten years of warming from 1988 to 1998.
(2) There has been steady temperature with some decline for the past ten years.

(1) For the three year base period starting 1987 to 1989 the world was warmer ( 0.2 degrees Celsius) than 1940 the average year global temperature for the entire 20th Century.  Then, by 1998, the global temperature climbed to a peak of (0.5 degrees Celsius) above 1940. From August of 1997 to the end of 1998 the global temperature remained at that level.  That ten years, from 1988 to 1998, was the global warming period that led James Hansen to call for global apocalyptic hysteria. 

(2) Since January of 1999 the global temperature has never exceeded the 1998 level and for most of the ten years 1999-2009 it has been lower (0.4 average for ten years).

So the political warming horse won the first race and the cool horse won the second race. Why do the politicians and their sycophants in the global media deny the existence of the second horse?