[Nate the great]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Here, for example:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html

I'm not a climatologist, but the scientists who work at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) whose page I link to above, certainly are.

I misspoke before. I should not have disputed the data. What I should have said was that I dispute the conclusions drawn from the data. But I am also going to point out that the data does not support the conclusions.

It is generally argued that increases in CO2 cause increases in temperature. If this is true, then why is 1934 one of the 2 hottest years on record in the US (along with 1998)? If you look, you will see that the 3rd hottest year is 2006, and the hottest years after that are 1921 and 1931. The USA is almost certainly releasing more carbon this year than in the ones I listed. Why is the temperature lower?

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.D.txt