Which atmospheric stations were used and why?
Why don't you do your own research? Of course, I suggest you stay far away from denier blogs, being denier blogs will just give you fraud and hoaxes.
Hopefully, these are some of the questions you ask when you see a shiny graph.
Hopefully, you'll start questioning why deniers are always making stuff up.[/QUOTE]
I have done my own researchers. It confounds me how AGW apologists can reduce the entire problem to CO2 and ignore all other factors. 'Climate science' has widely come to mean "the effects of CO2 on climate". Even other anthropogenic factors like 1.5 million sq. miles of concrete and asphalt are ignored. I can't be that simplistic.
While there are problems with using ice core samples to pinpoint annual or decadenal fluctuations in prehistoric climate, they give us a fairly dependable big picture perspective on how the climate fluctuated during the late Pleistocene era, going back 400,000 years or so. What we see are long periods of snowball earth, punctuated by brief warming spikes (interglacial periods). The interglacial periods, like the one we're in now, have come along fairly consistently every 100,000 years or so. This particular one, the Holocene Era, is amazingly consistent with past warming periods. The climate has been warming on and off for the last 17,000 years, give or take. We can expect the climate to continue to warm, CO2 or no CO2, until we enter the next pre-glacial period. If we compare this interglacial period with the Eemian, we shouldn't be surprised to see another 2 degrees Celcius of warming over the next few thousand years, and 20+ more feet of sea level rise. But, what we need to realize is that we're living in the good times. The climate is not 'broken'. The alternative is an Ice Age, for which we're due.
"Well, this warming spike is unprecedented", say the AGW apologists. That's not a fact. If you think that's a fact, you don't know the difference between a fact and speculation.
If I were a published scientist, I would actually be included within the 97% 'consensus', which isn't actually a consensus. I do believe that carbon emissions have some effect on climate, and that's all that's required to get you included in John Cook's 97% consensus survey, which is the source of the 97% statistic that everyone quotes. It's just that I think the effect of CO2 is minimal when compared to the effects of Milankovich cycles, periodic migrations of oceanic heat pumps, solar activity and chaos theory. The planet is going to do what it's going to do, and I can list a dozen reasons to break our oil addiction that (to me) are more compelling than 400 ppm CO2.