On Aug 18, 5:47*pm, Eric Stevens wrote:
...
All this at a time when even NASA (read Hansen) is being forced to
re-evaluate downwards its estimates of temperature rise over the last
century. It is futile to try to reach conclusions from correllations
(or lack thereof) with a curve which has not yet been established with
a reasonable degree of confidence.
...

I say the Smith and Reynolds analysis has already established
the curve with a reasonable degree of confidence -

Brett Anderson - Accuweather
http://global-warming.accuweather.co...temperatu.html

"Keep in mind, the Smith and Reynolds analysis
takes into account record that go back 128 years."

David Christainsen