So where exactly can I find the data that supports climate change?
Not a list of scientists who say they have the data. Not a chart of someone's interpretation of the data. But the actual data. For example, where can I find all the temperature measurements for July 9, 1935 and July 9, 1985, so I can compare them?
2009-07-09T08:53:05Z
Edit: What I'm looking for here are actual measurement numbers. Not summations or compilations. For example (again) all the measurements that went into the July 9, 1935 global temperature.
Dana19812009-07-09T08:20:27Z
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If you just want global temperature data, you can find it here: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
Or here: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/climate-monitoring/index.php
If you want a summary of the evidence supporting the man-made global warming theory, I recommend here: http://greenhome.huddler.com/wiki/global-warming-and-climate-change-causes
Climate changes on several cycles the shortest being the 11 year one of the primary sun spot cycle. There are also documented 200 year climate cycles, the last up tick one ended about 8 years ago and we are currently on the back side or down side of 4 major cycles that all peaked between 1996 and 2005. There is also a less well understood 1000 year cycle that might also help explain things. The 11 year and 200 year ones are the best documented though of them all.
That's because there is no proof that MGW is a crisis... The alarmists have correlations and computer models. Correlation is not proof, and the computer models don't agree within a factor of 10.
Climate scientists on both sides agree they don't know what the sensitivity of the atmosphere is, and if all you have to support your "argument" are non-proof and an error factor of 10, most folks would say the "science is NOT settled."
"... climate physicist Reto Knutti says "There is a true climate sensitivity. We just don't know its true value." http://www.nature.com/climate/2009/0905/full/climate.2009.41.html