[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Really???? A WHOLE 30 years???? Wow. Except it's not that simple, not even close.

OK, I'll play.....

Let's look at 30-year snippets. Your (and others) claim is this is unprecedented warming due to human activity. So you (plural you) must have a comparison. So please show me the 30 years between 880 and 910 AD, between 4670 and 4640 BC, and between 4,660,000 and 4,659,970 BC to convince the rest of us rational people that we are experiencing unprecedented global warming. Note I've done you the courtesy of not requesting 87,954,340 BC to 87,954,310 BC when Earth was much, much warmer.

The comparison is to look at the graph of temperature worldwide for the last 50 years (from 1974) to today. You will find that the graph INCREASES big time from 1994 til today. It is very similar to a graph of world population for that same time period. Climate Scientists feel that the reason for the HEAT increase (Global Warming) is that excessive world CO2 allowed a high altitude layer to block the infrared wave energy from the sun that then hit the Earth and bounced upward. 30 or so years ago the layer had not yet formed and the infrared would continue into space. Today, the radiation is refracted back to earth and has caused Man-caused Global Warming.