SteveGinIL
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- Oct 4, 2010
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I use to laugh at those of us who argued that, "Of course we are warming! An Ice Age just ended!"According to the IPCC, the global average surface temperature increase from 1850-1899 to 2001-2005 is 0.76°C ± 0.19°C.
But I don't laugh at them anymore. Michael Mann's discredited Hockey Stick be damned, there are hundreds of peer-reviewed papers that global warming advocates completely ignore. The only ones they accept are ones with the IPCC stamp of approval or from known scientists who are warming advocates.
The world WAS colder - from 1600 to 1850 - and no denying that fact can make our 160-year warming trend mean anything more than that there used to be an ice age, and now there isn't. BIG SURPRISE.
Warmers always pull the same shenanigans like that: Pick a REALLY COOL period and then compare today to that. Well, of course, when you start your curve at the lowest point EVERYTHING looks like it is on the upswing.
As to the latest upswing - since 1980 - that slope is the same as it was from 1850-1880 and as it was from 1910-1940. Notice those are both 30 years long? So was THIS period of increase. And who among the warmers is going to claim that it was CO2 in 1850-1880 or from 1910-1040? NONE of them. So why should we believe it is CO2 this time?
The science is not settled. There are swarms of studies that argue against the AGW hypothesis. When there is that much disagreement in the data, the only thing certain is that the hypothesis is uncertain. We've all been given the bum's rush by the warmers, and it is a good thing Climategate happened, to wake people up to the fact that the science is not settled AT ALL.