Concensus: Globe Likely Not Warming

SEE HERE “The story is the same for each one,” he said. “The popular data sets show a lot of warming but the apparent temperature rise was actually caused by local factors affecting the weather stations, such as land development.”

So much for global warming. Some scientists see the whole deal as due to bad data collection practices. Why anyone anywhere would think that simply looking at thermometers from a lot of places given the exigencies of placement, local effect especially due to human development, would be adequate to estimate planetary effects without bias is bewildering. It is a giant leap of faith to collect data in such an uncontrolled and haphazard way. Satellite data is likely to be much more reliable and has contradicted the terrestrial data for a long time. We just don't know enough to sustain all the hoopla by those who would dearly like to pass laws and tax us into the ground.