The historical record of warming during inter-glacial periods satisfies me pretty well.
Especially since we're not in a particularly warm part of this one.
Record cold in January or record heat in August is not dispositive of climate change. Over the last 130 years the average (5 year running average) temperature has gone up about 1 C. There is no evidence or model that can explain this satisfactorily or provide any proof that the act of mankind is the agent.
Have you ever tried to go back and look at the initial temperature data? The old thermometer (that's right thermometer, remember them?) readings. The ones that were written down by hand and kept on paper. Well, they are just plain not available. The only records left are the computer print-outs that have been "corrected" for some kind of bias that no one can explain.
And, when one looks carefully at the "corrections" it turns out that the older the data the more the temperature has been corrected down. These "corrections" are more than satisfactory evidence that the warming trend is indeed man-made, but not man-made in the sense you mean, man-made in these sense that the real data has been systematically biased toward "colder in the past".
Until Michael Mann and his merry band of miscreant charlatans are willing to disclose the original data, the "corrected" data is good for nothing but wrapping fish.
The historical record of warming during inter-glacial periods satisfies me pretty well.
Especially since we're not in a particularly warm part of this one.
TO #34. My son’s dog just farted. It raised the room temperature a couple of degrees and drove us outside into subfreezing temperatures.
Does this mean that human/animal activities don’t cause “Global Warming”?
This is a satiric statement, I think.