In a comment below and in conversations with friends I promised to present global temperature data quarterly.
The first chart on the right is the one I will present quarterly. As you can see, January 2006, last month, the world’s surface was cooler than any month in the year beginning February 1995 and ending February 1996. You can draw a straight horizontal line through the last nine years of data.
For those who think that humans and CO2 are causing global warming, you have the table on the left as a problem. The warming, in the first part of the 20th Century of 3 tenths of a degree centigrade was separated from the warming of the same amount in the second part of the 20th century by roughly forty years of no change. There is no correlation to CO2 emission which has increased exponentially from early in the 20th Century. Explain Lucy?
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