"...researchers said they were highly confident the mean global surface temperature was higher in the past 25 years than any comparable period during the previous four centuries.
They had less confidence the past quarter-century was hotter than any comparable period in the years from 900 to 1600, but found that plausible. For the years before 900, the scientists said they had very little confidence about what the Earth's mean surface temperatures were."
It seems to me like the scientists are sticking with what they can prove demonstrate beyond reasonable doubt (temperatures from 1600). If they claimed that we had the hottest temperatures since the 1000s then people with an agenda would pounce on their "unreliable" data and attempt to obfuscate the whole issue.
This sounds brilliant - do you know anywhere that has a howto on setting something like this up? I'm a PC user just about to replace various old machines with Macs and would love to have a guide like this to focus my buying around.
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I still want one :(
We don't know that for sure. From another article:
"...researchers said they were highly confident the mean global surface temperature was higher in the past 25 years than any comparable period during the previous four centuries.
They had less confidence the past quarter-century was hotter than any comparable period in the years from 900 to 1600, but found that plausible. For the years before 900, the scientists said they had very little confidence about what the Earth's mean surface temperatures were."
It seems to me like the scientists are sticking with what they can prove demonstrate beyond reasonable doubt (temperatures from 1600). If they claimed that we had the hottest temperatures since the 1000s then people with an agenda would pounce on their "unreliable" data and attempt to obfuscate the whole issue.
Just ignore it this time round and read it properly next month when it gets posted again.
You mean a trial to determine whether you are actually guilty...
This sounds brilliant - do you know anywhere that has a howto on setting something like this up? I'm a PC user just about to replace various old machines with Macs and would love to have a guide like this to focus my buying around.