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Originally Posted by Azure
So you're saying we should ignore the data from 1998 to 2005 because it is out of the norm?
I realize the temperature is overall going up, but 1998 was a warmer year then 2005, and if anything, we are producing more CO2 in 2005, then we were in 1998.
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It is a TREND. Sure, 1998 was the warmest year on record, followed by 2005. One data point does not invalidate the trend. And you admit that the overall temperature is going up. Is not the bigger issue that the 2 hottest year happened in the last 10? And that there is continuous climbing on the average temperatures?
I accept that there are historical cycles to the climate (note: climate <> weather). But the trends that we are seeing right now are happening faster than they have in the past. They are occuring during a time that there are other man made factors that haven't happened before. The change since the industrial revolution vs the rest of human history is astonishing. I don't want a knee jerk reaction, but I believe no reaction is not the answer either.
And as for your second quote, I'm not sure what you are trying to say? That glaciers are receding and it may be related to data gathered by weather balloons reporting there was warming in the late '70's?