Re: OT:Thanksgiving

In article <edc2bf5a-c795-4202-92d0-2a4f46705c58@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Alistair <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2 Dec, 15:43, spamb...@xxxxxxxxxx (Doug Miller) wrote:
In article
<bcc8fb64-062e-47bf-81d3-af367483d...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, 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.

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.
.

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