In reply:
" the results of a massive global warming millions of years ago."
It's interesting that coal came from increased CO2 and rain forests / jungles so reducing the % CO2. That governor is now lost with burning forests in a double effect as well as burning that coal . Arctic ice is a visible thermometer which can't lie,.. aagh ..photo shopping...
Posted by nicknamenick, Thursday, 18 August 2016 5:00:02 PM

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My point was about global climate cycles over very long periods. I'm neither a denier nor someone who thinks the human race is behaving in any way other than appallingly badly. Nor do I deny the veracity of scientific study, but I do think the veracity of those studies should be thoroughly questioned. In this case this should be by reference to millions of years, not just the last 150 during which temperature records have been (a) available (b) basically sound and (c) capable of inclusion in actual data records.

In reply to Aiden, quote:
“…when he [Roberts] claimed there had been no warming for about 21 years" is so ludicrous that it makes it very difficult to take the rest of your article seriously”

Just as Cox presented an obsolete unidentified graph so too was Roberts citing non-contemporary information (if more recent) probably from early 2015, before the now rapidly decaying El Nino (a natural phenomenon) resulted in the recent hot spike.

However, if you look at the UAH and RSS Satellite data (which strongly contradict GISS) you will see that there was a significant plateau AKA ‘The Pause’. Furthermore, if the current rate of decline continues, currently much faster than in 1998, there will be a substantial return to a long pause.

http://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/
http://images.remss.com/msu/msu_time_series.htm

A little further reading around the matter :http://theconversation.com/no-the-bureau-of-meteorology-is-not-fiddling-its-weather-data-31009

JM's conspiracy theory would have a hard time getting up in court. All she has at this point is a claim of motive AFAICT.

For those interested in the detail of just how dodgy the adjustments are to the Rutherglen temperature minima by the Australian bureau, there is a lot more technical evidence in my submission to the Australian Auditor General, which can be downloaded here: http://jennifermarohasy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Request-Audit-BOM-Marohasy-Ver2.pd

Sorry, the above link was too long - missing an 'f' at the end. Try this: http://bit.ly/2bE5r40

Since the space shuttle disasters (Challenger and Columbia) N.A.S.A. has needed to hitch a lift with the Russians.
"The US space agency has forked out $490m (£316m) for six seats for its astronauts to get to the ISS on board one of the Russian Federal Space Agency's (Roscosmos) Soyuz spacecraft."
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nasa-forced-pay-russia-490m-lift-iss-1514497
Why are they even in the dodgy temperature propaganda game? They should close GISS down and use the wasted funding to get back some respect.