"James" wrote in message
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"Roger Coppock" wrote in message
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Your estimates on the error in these data
are very exaggerated. If you have better data,
please post it here. Until then I would prefer
to reason from data like these, rather than
ignorance.

No Roger. It's more of a lack of data. I just gave you the facts. One
can't
take some readings and accurately apply it globally over 100 year peiod if
they are not all there. Of course you could take the science philosopy
that
it's all you have so it is gospel.

He lacks common sense. He seems to want to apply rigorous stat analysis to
too little data, of questionable quality, of much too short a time span and
then thinks he has decisive important results.

And so what of the results? Any natural "system" has variations - we don't
know what are the normal "standard deviations" of temperature for the
inter-glacial warm period we're in.

The best model that I know of is derived from ice cores and deep sea
sediments that indicates appx 100,000 year cooling/warming cycles of with
short warm periods. Apparently, we could be near the end of this
inter-glacial warm period, and IF man really is warming the environment -
can that be proven to be a bad thing as opposed to slipping into a cooling
phase?