Proof of AGW

[OwlHoot]

I'm fairly agnostic, although I still think we may be in for some nasty surprises climate-wise, even if things don't turn out quite the way global warmists claim, but ..

Remember Ötzi the Iceman? He was found high up an alpine mountain in a hollow where the ice was melting, the reason his remains came to light, and at the time this was cited as more proof of global warming.

But subsequent analysis of how his goods had been scattered, and pollen samples, showed that the ice there must have completely melted a couple of thousand years ago too, and he and his arrows etc went for a swim before everything froze again.

[Troll]

Hmmmm

Temperatures are falling, not rising
Temperatures have been dropping in a wholly unpredicted way over the past year. Last winter, the northern hemisphere saw its greatest snow cover since 1966, which in the northern US states and Canada was dubbed the "winter from hell". This winter looks set to be even worse.

The earth was hotter 1,000 years ago
Evidence from all over the world indicates that the earth was hotter 1,000 years ago than it is today. Research shows that temperatures were higher in what is known as the Mediaeval Warming period than they were in the 1990s.

The earth's surface temperature is not at record levels
According to Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies analysis of surface air temperature measurements, the meteorological December 2007 to November 2008 was the coolest year since 2000. Their data has also shown that the hottest decade of the 20th century was not the 1990s but the 1930s.

Ice is not disappearing
Arctic website Crysophere Today reported that Arctic ice volume was 500,000 sq km greater than this time last year. Additionally, Antarctic sea-ice this year reached its highest level since satellite records began in 1979. Polar bear numbers are also at record levels.

Himalayan glaciers
A report by the UN Environment Program this year claimed that the cause of melting glaciers in the Himalayas was not global warming but the local warming effect of a vast "atmospheric brown cloud" over that region, made up of soot particles from Asia's dramatically increased burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.

Temperatures are still dropping
Nasa satellite readings on global temperatures from the University of Alabama show that August was the fourth month this year when temperatures fell below their 30-year average, ie since satellite records began. November 2008 in the USA was only the 39th warmest since records began 113 years ago.

[TykeMerc]

I'm not surprised in the slightest.

The whole ManBearPig thing is a total fantasy based on poor science and fiddled figures.

[BlasterBates]

Well I have been wondering whether global warming was man made, and here is the proof.

Proof of man made global warming

...hmm naughty statisticians.

It appears therefore if we were to sack the research scientists in the climate research units, this should prevent the temperature from rising above 2 degrees.

sorted.