Read
what
John
Houghton,
the former head of the UK Meteorological Office,
had
to say (2003/07/29)
And (this should scare you, if nothing else does) read
what
the
US
Department of Defense thinks about global warming (Observer
2004/02/22)
This informative graph obtained from
http://www.met-office.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/CR_data/Annual/HadCRUG.gif
That website has recently completely changed and this particular file
is no longer available, but the same underlying data and a
straightforward explanation of the current (Jan 2011) Hadley Center/UK
Met Office global temperature
record is here:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate-change/guide/science/explained/temp-records
Or the updated record to 2010 with explanation is here: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/info/warming/
Because adequate global temperature records from thermometers are
not available before 1850, all information on global climate before
this time comes from geological ("proxy") records, including ice cores,
coral and tree ring records, and stratified sedimentary deposits.
Geological scientists have provided evidence of fundamental and primary
importance both in setting the longer-term context of warming given by
the thermometer temperature record, and of the potential consequences,
from previous geological events of major climate change due to carbon
release to the atmosphere. The
ice core record The millenial proxy
temperature record Paleocene-Eocene
thermal maximum event
The American Geophysical Union's position
statement
on Human impacts on Climate
The Geological Society of America's position
statement on Climate Change
The Geological Society of London's position
statement
on Climate Change: evidence from the geological record
Return to Planet of the aliens
or to The significance of Geology
or, if you refuse to take seriously the evidence for global
warming/climate
change, and the (potentially catastrophic) consequences,
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