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Whoever claimed that there was no climate change?  I doubt very seriously that there have been many periods in earth's history where the climate was not in a period of warming or cooling.  Change is the norm on earth.  The question is whether or not the activities of man are responsible and the best team did not even touch on that question.


Further, the best team found that here in the US, the temperature monitoring system is the next thing to useless.  Thousands upon thousands of monitoring stations have been taken offline and the bulk of those are in rural areas which has led to a warm bias due to heat islands in large metropolitan areas.  In addition, at least 70% of the stations here are situated in such terrible places that they are generating data that is 2 to 5 degrees C in error.  In short, the margin of error is several times larger than the amount of temperature change being predicted and that is here in the US.  We are as of yet, unsure about the condition of data stations in the 3rd world or in europe.


The bottom line is that the best team found that the data indicate that the temperature is rising, but also found that the data is hardly worth the time and expense it took to collect it.


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