[BJungNan]

It’s not too cold here. I’d have to say there is no global warming in our area. How about everyone else?

[BJungNan]

It’s not too warm here. I’d have to say there is no global warming in our area. How about everyone else?

[Mogollon]

Wow! Looks like there was a 0.12 degrees centigrade rise in 7 years. LOL

Of course, there is other more reliable data that there has been a slight decrease in global temps since 1998.

[Names Ash Housewares]

Three of the four lines at the end are outside the predicted area,

colder the predicted.

Hilarious.

And it is a tiny portion of data, a fraction of a heartbeat of earths age.

[neverdem]

Glaciers in a hothouse world - Antarctic ice sheets grew in a climate much warmer than today's.

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[RJL]

If that graph were of government spending, the NYT would be bemoaning a huge drop in spending.

[steelyourfaith]

"Hot Air Cult"

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[Telepathic Intruder]

How can anyone draw a straight line through that mess of randomness? It looks like wishful thinking to me.

[chainsaw]

Now, lets see a 70 year or a 100 year chart with a straight line projection. A seven year chart is useless and meaningless.

[norwaypinesavage]

This has got to be one of the most bogus analyses on the subject I have ever seen. One can argue about reliability of data from the past centuries, or the past millenia, or recent geologic history, but the data from the last decade is unassailable. So why is the author not including the data from 1998?

I'll answer that question. 1998 had the highest temperature in the last 80 years. If it were included, the graph would incontrovertibly show global cooling! All of the trend lines would point down.

[xcamel]

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Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown
Dr. John Ray's
GREENIE WATCH

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Good data...

[The Great RJ]

Rather than look at a seven year range of data, let us see how the Gore climate consensus holds up to historical data for the last century. I am certain the predictions would be nowhere close to actual observed results.

[cogitator]

RealClimate responded to this very quickly, with an extended response from Roger Pielke Jr. :

Uncertainty, noise and the art of model-data comparison

[JustDoItAlways]

The whole discussion is MOOT because we cannot trust the temperature measurements going back 100 years.

The original temperature data has been adjusted and re-adjusted and twisted a dozen times by the global warming advocates (who are also the agencies of record for the temperature records.)

The only data which can be trusted is the lower atmosphere temperature figures from the satellites since 1979 shown here.