Climate GATE....

[JerryLove]

We are using 1,000 years of data to make a hypothesis about a planet with 2 billion plus year history.

Actually: we are using a graph that shows rising temperatures to say that the Earth is currently heating up.

Since we are not looking for billion-year trending, data that old wouldn't be useful to the discussion it hand... not to mention that the data isn't available in any precise form.

 

[Adam]

Since we are not looking for billion-year trending, data that old wouldn't be useful to the discussion it hand...

Sure it would be. The fluctuations that are clearly shown over a period of 1000 or 2000 years (it's heating...it's cooling...it's heating...ummm, what's it doing?) could easily indicate that the overall trend shown for the past 1000 years is another such fluctuation.

Either way, our species will be gone before too long. Let's just have another drink and enjoy the holidays.

 

[annunaki]

Actually: we are using a graph that shows rising temperatures to say that the Earth is currently heating up.

Since we are not looking for billion-year trending, data that old wouldn't be useful to the discussion it hand... not to mention that the data isn't available in any precise form.

Not taking perspective of the 1000 years (though only the last 400 are probably close to accurate) and putting it into billion year trending or even million year trending would be completely ignorant.

Using a normal warming or cooling cycle to push one's agenda is rather manipulative and disgusting.


Please look at the bolded part of your post. This again just clarifies the view that we really don't have a clue as to how this possible trend fits into the whole scheme of things. Without having a broad baseline of data, the small snapshot of data is somewhat useless.