Re:Don't call it "global Warming" (Score 1)

Actually, when I look at the data, I can't see how the researchers came to any conclusion. The total temperature change they are talking about is 1 degree celcius. The graph only begins to move up that extra 1/2 degree in the last 80 or ninety years. In fact, the earlier data from tree rings and shells appears to indicate a downward trend until about 1910. The 14 places that the newer data is taken from is all near populated areas, which certainly have other influences such as heat sources in winter and heat from airconditioning in Winter, cars, asphalt, fewer trees etc. Does 1/2 degree even fall within the accuracy of the study? . Perhaps the headline should read "People seem to maybe have possibly made it a little warmer near populated areas over the last 90 years, or not maybe huh?" Here is a link to the graph, the data is close at hand. huh!

http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/nhsh gl.gif