The Migrant Mind: Will the REAL temperature please stand up?

Question, if the climatologists don't know what the temperature was in Salehard in 1960 to within a degree how can they be sure that the globe has warmed by that much?

Global warming hike may be steeper: research

Using sediment drilled from the ocean floor, the scientists' reconstruction of carbon dioxide concentrations found that "a relatively small rise in CO2 levels was associated with substantial global warming 4.5 million years ago."

They also found that the global temperature was between two and three degrees Celsius (3.6 and 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than today even though carbon dioxide levels were similar to the current ones, the statement said.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Post-Copenhagen: More Questions than Answers

On the US political right, I can find almost no reaction to Copenhagen, except for some minor musing on what it might mean for Senate consideration of cap-and-trade in the spring. I would expect to see some triumphalism at the perceived failure of the meeting, and I would doubt that there will be any positive takes (other than "we're happy that it failed").

Steve McIntyre on Fox news special tonight about Climategate « Watts Up With That?

Fox News is running a one-hour special on climate tonight at 9 p.m. [6PM PST]

Green Inc. Column - Copenhagen’s One Real Accomplishment - Getting Some [Climate Swindle] Money Flowing - NYTimes.com

“If the carbon markets are expected to provide any significant portion of that $100 billion, then developed countries will need to commit to cap emissions tightly to drive demand for allowances,” said Tom Brookes, the director at the European Climate Foundation, a research organization based in Brussels.

“But right now there are no caps in the accord,” said Mr. Brookes, referring to the outcome in Copenhagen.
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“There are a number of different ideas about how we can pursue the financing,” Mrs. Clinton said.

“The important point,” she said, was “not to talk about how we would fund money that we haven’t yet agreed to fund, but to make the agreement that that is what we’re going to do.”

AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Two Union Voices Challenge Climate Change Summit

Bob Baugh, executive director of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council and co-chair of the AFL-CIO Energy Task Force, sent us this report from the climate change talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, where 40 U.S. union members were part of a 400-member global union movement delegation led by the International Trade Union Confederation