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Originally Posted by Slava
Well I just doubt the accuracy of measuring the planets temperature past a certain point. When I see the temperature increases since the 1880's for example, how accurate were those readings? Are we talking about a guy using weather data every year to gauge an average? I know we aren't talking about anything involving what we consider to be modern science at that point though, so its questionable. So lets say that you have accurate data since the 60's, or about 50 years. That's 50 years out of how many thousands/millions? Its almost a snapshot.
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I can understand this line of thinking if you look at temperatures standalone. What you're ignoring is the science that predicts warming not based on temperature trends but on models of how increasing CO2 would impact the heat balance of Earth. Rising temperature measurements simply support the validity of those predictions.