Are these accurate statements on climate change?

[William Thornton]

[KeithE]

[William Thornton]

Bit of overkill. Suppose I take your data and you can forego the graphs. Here are the assertions:

1.Surface temperatures are indeed increasing slightly I think you are in agreement with this save for the word "slightly". If 3/4 of a degree is not 'slightly' what fraction of a degree is 'slightly'?

2.They’ve been going up, in fits and starts, for more than 150 years, or since a miserably cold and pestilential period known as the Little Ice Age. Not sure why you wouldn't just agree with this. Is it not a true statement, the LIA ending in the 19th century?

3. Before carbon dioxide from economic activity could have warmed us up, temperatures rose three-quarters of a degree Fahrenheit between 1910 and World War II. The 'before carbon dioxide..." meets with your disapproval. Not sure I disagree on this one.

4. They then cooled down a bit, only to warm again from the mid-1970s to the late ’90s, Your explanation, "The temperature dip in the 1940-1975 timeperiod was due to increase particulants in the air from small stacks and increasing use of cars. That smog has been effectively handled by Nixon's Clean Air Act (1970) and the air became cleaner particulant-wise by about 1980 but the CO2 just kept on rising (see plot above) since CO2 was not classified as a pollutant." Bit of US centrism here? Did Nixon clean up the whole planet? Is this the accepted explanation for the 1940-75 dip? You agree that it cooled down "a bit".

5. about the same amount as earlier in the century. Not sure what you said here. Was the temp rise mid-70s to late 90s about the same (3/4 degree or so?) as earlier in the century? Don't your graphs confirm this as an accurate statement?

I'm not an expert in communications but it looks to me like the concise paragraph I quoted is a lot clearer than the tortured explanation you gave that, I think, trashed it.

[KeithE]