All we need are a current baseline comparing current tree-rings to precipitation / temperature for more than a hundred years (which we have) and then we only need look at local fossilized remains to backtrack.
Like I said, good all the way back to 50K BCE.

Reading up and down this thread, precisely as I might have anticipated, comes the shocking news that either there is a worldwide conspiracy of climatologists eager to get their $400 / year grants to study tree-ring O-14 ratios while passing up the Nobel Prize for proving 75 years of Climatology is a hoax OR there are a large number of otherwise capable brains here in Slashdot land who will NEVER accept the disaster of cheap fossil fuels until they themselves succumb to heat stroke.
Given human nature, and particularly the nature of psuedo-liberalism, I'm willing to place my faith in the 'conspirators' who point out that our children, not our grandchildren, are going to starve sometimes thanks to fossil fuel burning.

So, let me get this straight. The observation of tree rings over the last 50 years, when we have global IR temperature readings along with reliable precipitation does NOT co-relate with tree ring / climate 50,000 years ago (assuming fossilized wood here)?
Talking about pushing it!

Read the polls. Republicans are polling 1/2 what Democrats are polling. It looks much more likely that the Senate will remain in Democratic hands. The house MAY increase Republican representation, but it is not very likely says 531 and Gallup and NORC and Quinnepac.
Meanwhile, "Money is speech" is Scalia's line. No other Justice would sign that concurrence.
As for Cantor, he ran to the right, but his base ran to the outhouse
Term limits worked so well for Republicans in California...not.
I can indeed infringe on your 'right' to silence 99% with the 1% owning all the airwaves. Old law long established.
Sorry, but the Koch brothers cannot "speak" with money so as to silence meaningful opposition.
The Supreme Court long ago ruled that the right to speak MUST include the right to be heard.
The Koch Brother's right to swing their billion dollar fist ends at my nose...and all the rest of the American people.
If the Kochs want to stand on a soapbox and shout, it is their right.
If they want to buy the media so ONLY their shout is heard, that is not protected.

Actually, I am arguing with Antonin Scalia who ALONE has made the claim that money is speech. I agree. Until he dies or resigns, he stands as a barrier to the righ of free speech, which is of course the same thing as the right to be heard (already established in 1836). With any good luck Obama will be able to appoint a replacement with a shred of integrity (Scalia refused to recuse himself from Bush v. Gore while his wife and sons took 138,000 in pay from Bush while Thomas immediate family took a cool million) who will respect the right of EQUAL speech and ban all money from politics entirely.
But don't hold your breath that the VRWC will allow the confirmation of any 'radical' jurist who dares question "Money is speech" Scalia.

Foxconn still has armed guards and guard towers and the factories are the dorms.
Where did you see this in an enlightened Employer-employee relationship?
Is Foxconn 'cooking the books' about mental health?
who cares? Apple doesn't.

Freedom of speech only exists under conditions of EQUALITY OF SPEECH, that is, when Koch buys the airtime, there is ONLY ONE VOICE and that, ladies and gentlemen, is why Scalia is wrong and money is NOT speech.
As I pointed out, the teagaggers are not a grass roots, they are astroturf, organ, bought and paid for.
the polling at Gallup, NORC, WSJ all agree, republicans are in VERY bad shape for 2014, with Democrats approved by 23% to Republicans 12%, nearly a 2:1 advantage. See the actual polls by actual polisters on www.pollingreport.com
Get ready for the real, your party's Obstructionism and Government Shutdowns are coming home to eat your chickens.

True.
They will also doctor cat food with plastic and add zinc to stretch out the titanium you demanded for dental appliances
How do we know this? Because SOME of the guilty were SHOT for damaging China's manufacturing...once U.S. Regulators did all the work, that is.
The Chinese Capitalist state is not interested in anything but profit, because, you know, they are CAPITALISTS with their own pet government

Can you cite your source?
My information may be out of date.

And fiberglass certainly is used in collapsible structures as well, likewise carbon fiber.
Give up a 30 year car (by dint of regulation) and even the 1% will keep a car for decades.
There will be a big market in aftermarket bodies to disguise the fact though.

Ahh, you are just inventing history now...no, I'm not. History of Richard Armey, Freedomworks and the origin of the tea baggers
Secrets of the tea party
The tea party is an AstroTurf campaign front for Koch and Sciafe, with some money from DeVos (of Amway)

A car uses approx. 1/2 the total energy it will consume in an average working lifetime during manufacture.
It follows that if we wish a lower carbon footprint, we mandate a long lived car
with especial emphasis on long life steering and drivetrains
Thus the used car market gluts in a decade, ending the 'trade up' value of cars.
result? Even the tier 1 buyers demand easily replaced bodies to go on long life vehicles, cutting life cycle fuel costs.

Never ever tolerate good wages and working conditions, security for workers or solutions to social problems.
ALWAYS find the cheapest labor without actually shooting strikers yourself.
Get a friendly government to make slaves for you and then underpay THEM too
Remember, the only Real Creators are Management and Capital
Everyone else is a leech, demanding payment for making products, how disgusting can they be?
That's the Capitalist WAY, after all!

"Skepticalscience.com" a Koch paid front? (www.sourcewatch.org use the search) No, I'm afraid I'll trust NOAA before Koch.

It is not the intent of the Tea Baggers to identify with the founding principles. Remember their appearance before the American people, shouting and screaming in order to SILENCE the discussions of Obamacare in the TownHall Rush? The really bad joke was their choice of name for themselves..until they learned the meaning of their self-identification.