To: RetiredNow who wrote (15490 ) 12/18/2009 4:25:44 PM From: Brumar89 2 Recommendations Read Replies (3) | Respond to No, you can't make a clear statement that todays temperatures are out of "control" and not "within three sigma" and demand me to prove it isn't true! You need to show what the mean is, what the three sigma boundaries are and show that we're outside them now. Lets let the last 10,000 years (basically the holocene, all after the end of the last major ice age) be the base period. Show us what the mean global temperatures are for that period and what the three sigma boundaries are and that the last century or half century or whatever period you choose is outside those boundaries. Why is it accelerating? Is it because someone has manipulated the data? Maybe. With all the recent press, I wouldn't rule that out. But let's say the ice core data has not been manipulated for a second. What conclusion would you draw if you knew that CO2 content is accelerating faster in the last 50 years than at any time in the last 800 thousand years? Would you still say, nothing different is happening? Or like a real scientist, would you look for causes?
