Posted on 11/02/2011 10:02:06 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Guest post by Tony Brown
Context is everything, and nowhere more so than in climate history, where a graphic such as this seems to illustrate an alarming uptick in temperatures that has been blamed on modern man and his profligate burning of CO2;
Table 1 http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/
But take one step back;
Table 2 http://www.berkeleyearth.org/analysis.php
And the recent analysis from BEST seems to illustrate a tantalizing suggestion that the warming observed by GISS to 1880 was merely part of a longer term trend.
Take several even longer steps backwards, through the medium of Central England temperature (CET) the oldest and most examined instrumental data set in the world- maintained by the UK’s Met office- and this puts GISS into further historic context, in that the temperature rise extends-with numerous advances and reverses- all the way to 1659.
(Excerpt) Read more at wattsupwiththat.com ...
The End of Climategate? New data on global temperature trends sheds light on the 2009 climate...
The AGW Cult is still working hard.....
I hate to nit pick .. but I cannot abide sloppy work.
Tony, the problem isn't man's "profligate burning of CO2".
We're not burning CO2, we're allegedly generating too much CO2 by burning carbon based fuels.
Sheesh ...
Does anyone actually know how they take the temperature from 10s (100s?) of thousands of thermometers around the world, for an entire year, and end up with one number?
But I haven't read thru the c omments as yet!
Oh now that is a HUGE discussion....Anthonu Watts website is and has been all over that tipic since ...well before Climate Gate happened!
From WUWT:
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Ray says:
“alarming uptick in temperatures that has been blamed on modern man and his profligate burning of CO2″
CO2 does not burn. CO2 is the product of combustion.
Yes, they are. I use Yahoo weather to see satellite pics each day and I have noticed a big uptick in the number of "glowbull warming" stories in their lineup of "weather" articles in the last few weeks.
Thanks Ernest.
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