http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2009/jun/global.html#temp

The new report shows that the IPCC has failed to provide any empirical evidence that shows that dangerous human-caused global warming is occurring. In particular:
• The 20th century was not the warmest in the last 1,000 years;

• No evidence exists that any measurable amount of the rise in global temperature over the last 50 years is a result of human influence;

• Current rates of ice/glacier melt are not unusual;

• Current weather (including tropical storms, droughts and floods) is not unusual;

• Current sea-level change is occurring at rates typical of recent times;

• No correlation has been demonstrated between increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and dangerous temperature rise.

The NIPCC report is available for purchase or free download, at http://www.nipccreport.org/

I’m sure evryone is looking at the same data here but interpreting it differently depending on your understanding of the whole picture. I see a slight but upward trend over many yrs, the latest dip is but a statistical ANOMALY.

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Yes. Temperatures have been steadily rising since the mid-1600′s. A LONG ways before any so-called CO2-induced global warming.

Fact remains, for all but 25 years of the past 230 years, CO2 has been flat while temperatures have risen, CO2 has been increasing while temperatures have fallen, and CO2 has been increasing while temperatures have stayed the same. Now, just what IS the relationship between CO2 and temperature that we are spending 9 trillion dollars on?

Don’t you understand? This is your argument: “…what’s important is the trend“.

For instance, here is a trend that you can see. Or not.

[OK, I guess under current IPCC rules it isn't fair to introduce actual facts.]

Finally, a response of “again not true” presupposes a complete understanding of that question — which is doubtful. Read the question(s) again. I’ll admit that it can’t be answered with a simple “not true.”

“Again not true.” Emotion, me boy. It’s in everyone’s downfall.

How about we address some of yours?

Arctic sea ice extents were measured (not guessed, not assumed, not “corrected” or corrupted but actually measured this spring in 2009 at their record highest-ever extent.

Not true: http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm

Antarctic ice mass is now also at its highest ever recorded value. What is melting, and where?

Not true.

Name ANY real danger from an increase in temperature by 2 degrees – while noting that right now, we are cooling off globally at a 2 degree per century rate..

Again not true.

You: Great, the tropospheres temperature is not increasing… that is a good argument to spew more co2 in the air. Why is measuring one part of the atmosphere a clinical argument. There is more than one part to the atmosphere.

Reply: Surface temperatures have been corrupted by unexplained and unjustified and incorrect and biased “correction factors” by Hansen’s GISS and the NOAA such that more than 85% of the ENTIRE “global warming” temperature between 1900 and 2000 is “correction factors. Worse, the single most significant known “correction” that does actually INCREASE the apparent measured temperatures is NOT corrected in the NOAA/GISS plots – thus corrupting the evidence even more against your assumed AGW. Unbiased, un-corrupted raw data showing a decline in truly global temperatures uncorrupted by local heat islands, false measurement stations, and human influences IS the most reliable measurement possible.

Further, GISS, the IPCC, and the UK’s staff “climatologists” have been shown numerous times to have lied and propagandized their data, their studies, and their messages – so their claims need be checked by more reliable sources.

Local surface temperatures – in the “best measured” country in the world have been found to have fewer than 12% of the stations accurately sited and safe from local heat biases. The rest of the world is even worse. What measurements do you want to trust your 1.6 trillion dollar boondoggle to?
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You: Dont worry about the stratosphere and the ice sheets, the troposphere graph will fix it. The ice (our ignorance parachute) is pretending to melt. Bring back CFCs.

Reply: AGW theory REQUIRES that the upper troposphere be warming much more rapidly than the surface temperatures, and even more rapidly than the oceans and arctic areas. It is not so warming – but is declining. This proves that Hansen’s and Gore’s THEORY of CO2 effects on temperature – with the constants they have ASSUMED and the math that they have APPROXIMATED in the computer ESTIMATES and PROJECTIONS is false. If the data prove your computer is false over a 30 year period, you CANNOT make your theory correct by lying about the effects prdicted
100 years, 200 years, or 400 years in the future.

Arctic sea ice extents were measured (not guessed, not assumed, not “corrected” or corrupted but actually measured this spring in 2009 at their record highest-ever extent. Antarctic ice mass is now also at its highest ever recorded value. What is melting, and where? Sea levels are NOT rising faster than ever before, but at the same consistent 2 to 3 mm/year rate they’ve always been rising since the last Ice Age.
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You: Changing the structure of the air is a great idea. 10 million years to stabilize the air and we can change that is 50. Civilization at it best.

Reply: Yes, increasing CO2 has led to 12% to 27% MORE food, fuel, fodder, feed, and seeds as plants grow faster, stronger, and more drought resistant. Name ANY real world harm done by increasing CO2 from today’s levels to say 1000 ppm or 1500 ppm. Name ANY real danger from an increase in temperature by 2 degrees – while noting that right now, we are cooling off globally at a 2 degree per century rate..

The atmosphere has NEVER been “stable” and is part of a natural world that we can only marvel at. Destroying the world and increasing poverty RUINS more ecologies and KILLS more people than improving people’s economic conditions so THEY can live safer, more productive, healthier lives. Or do you really want more people to die? Colder winter weather kills 4 to 6 times more people per year than warmer, more productive, healthier and safer hot, more summer-like temperatures.

Now, there is little doubt that the UK has tended to warmer summers and (more particularly) milder winters over the last 25 years, but it is a big stretch to prove that the climate of a fairly small island on the edge of a large ocean bears much relation to the rest of the world. The recent weather though has been more conducive to growing some varieties of grape, especially with the development of types that are more resistant to cold.

I understand (although am no expert on the issue) that the UK can produce some very good sparkling wines based on the same grape varieties as traditionally used in the Champagne region (which of course isn’t that far away from the south east of England).

http://www.iceagenow.com/Record_low_temperatures_in_46_states_during_June.htm

Wow…

The plants don’t lie and have no agenda …

FWIW, these folks claim to have a tomato that works in Scotland:

http://www.seedfest.co.uk/about/about.html#highland