1/2 a degree in average global temperature translates to a LOT of warming as far as humans are concerned. hell, the difference between 'normal' and an ice age is (i think) only about 1 degree.
what the CRU did, not U of Bristol, was sex up a graph. they did not delete any data, it was never their data to begin with. tree-ring data is not proven science, but i didn't use any. you don't believe in thermometers?
the airborne fraction can't stay the same forever given rising CO2 releases. it's like water flowing thru a carbon filter, or the lint trap in a dryer. at first, it will just absorb more, and nothing will appear different. until it has reached its capacity. the earth's capacity to absorb carbon is known as the carbon sink. it's like a sink filling up with water. once it's full, it overflows. now consider how much the earth's levels of CO2 have increased even WITH so much being absorbed back into earth's carbon sink. what will happen when it's full?
for even more understanding, look into the geologic time period when O2 was first being released into the atmosphere. at first, there was no noticable effect, the atmospheric concentration stayed negligible, because most of the O2 was being absorbed by soluble iron in the oceans (which bonded to the O2 and precipitated out). common sense (which you appear to be lacking) should make it obvious that this can only continue until there is no more dissolved iron in the oceans. and that's exactly what happened. atmospheric O2 exploded (even though the same amounts were being released as before), and the Earth basically froze. even the oceans froze over. virtually overnight, by geologic standards. i'm sorry your (probably) MS public education didn't teach you that.
and 17 you for being such an *** about it that i had to put that much politics on this board.
on that note, i apologize to everyone else on this board for putting this up, as this ain't a political board. it's not the GW stuff i even gave a **** about, it's the idiotic misunderstanding of basic statistics/probability that hits a nerve. whether it's someone saying one 17ing game means everything or that somewhere, sometime, it was cold disproves GW. IOW, i can find an example of a short QB who was successful, if i ignore all the ones that weren't. finding one (or a few) exceptions doesn't disprove the 17ing trend. hyping the exceptions and ignoring the rest isn't insight, it's just the same BS psychology 'psychics' use to bilk the rubes. the only reason i even put all this now is because of how many sports posts on here match that BS lately.
out.