Re: OT:Thanksgiving

"Doug Miller" <spambait@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Alistair <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
spamb...@xxxxxxxxxx (Doug Miller) wrote:
Alistair <alist...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
All data shows that the most significant increase in global CO2 and
temperature has occured with increasing human population and
particularly the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. Coincidence? I think not.

Of course it's not a coincidence -- because it's not true.

There are NO reliable records of GLOBAL temperatures prior to the late 19th
century, for three reasons: first, early thermometers were not accurate
enough
to allow valid comparisons with modern data; second, record-keeping was
spotty
and inconsistent; and third, temperature measurements were neither made nor
recorded *globally*.


Who said anything about thermometers? Calibrate tree rings against
modern thermometers and you can go back millennia. Ditto for oxygen
isotopes in marine snail shells.

You can *infer* temperature from those things, but you can't *measure* it. And
the global-warming Chicken Littles would have us make massive changes in every
facet of life on the basis of an inference. I'd rather have actual
measurements, thank you very much.

The crux of the issue, precisely.
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