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An Anonymous Coward writes:

"The fuss made over contested decimal points in highly adjusted datasets of irrelevant factors only shows how unscientific the public debate is. It probably wasn’t the hottest year in the last 150, and even it was, who cares – that doesn’t tell us anything about the cause. (Remember when cause and effect used to matter to a scientist?) Natural forces like the Sun and clouds can cause hot years too. Even if it was “the hottest” in a short noisy segment, the world has been hotter before (and life on Earth thrived) and the climate models are still hopelessly wrong. If CO2 was a big driver of the climate, 2015 should have been a lot hotter."

The article then provides comparisons with satallite data, ice core samples. Then sums up the current state of sea level rise and other hot issues.

My favourite being the last 100,000 years comparing now to the Medieval and Roman warming periods as **temperature measurements** and not anomaly graphs: http://jonova.s3.amazonaws.com/graphs/lappi/gisp-last-10000-new.png [amazonaws.com]

Article: http://joannenova.com.au/2016/01/hottest-shattering-year-since-the-last-one-five-reasons-it-was-not-hot-and-not-relevant/ [joannenova.com.au]

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