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Bill Gates gave me $100,000.Well, okay, it wasn’t exactly for me, it was for the non-profit that I co-founded and run, Berkeley Earth.And it wasn’t exactly from Bill Gates, it actually came from the Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research, which was created by Bill Gates.But still, isn’t that close enough?We used the money to re-analyze the global temperature record using modern statistical methods, and address the major concerns of global warming skeptics.It was amazing.

The graph, and a few variations of it , is one of the most misrepresented graphs ever to be recycled by the climate Denial for profit movement and their tribe of amateur deniers.Here are 2 other versions of it with the mandatory childish denier blog drawings and arrows added:So whats wrong?For a start,the graph have been altered. The real graph (below) says YEARS BEFORE PRESENT (1950 AD)Thats the first lie .But, there is more.It’s not updated and it’s NOT global!!Thus climate deniers are misrepresenting it. The professional Denial for profit movement helped creating the myth behind this, mostly by the climate crank Don Easterbrook. The echo chamber of amateur deniers are recycling it all the time. It’s sad how they lack any critical thinking.For a start.GISP2 is one (1) specific place on Greenland. It’s not global.Greenland Ice Sheet Project - Wikipedia“Unfortunately, GISP2 is concerned with local temperatures on Greenland which do not accurately represent the average global temperature – nor even the Northern Hemisphere. Drawing conclusions on the global climate based on GISP2 amounts to pretending that the whole world is affected by heavy rainfalls based on the precipitations in Bergen [a Norwegian city known for plentifull rainfall].”This is GISP2’s location on Greenland, hardly global ay?Secondly.The graph stops in 1855, long before the GW we have seen over the last 164 years. The GISP2 “present” follows a common paleoclimate convention and is actually 1950. The first data point in the file is at 95 years BP. This would make 95 years BP 1855 — a full 164 years ago, long before any other global temperature record shows any modern warming.The man behind the graph is debunking the deniers misrepresenting his work:Lets bring in Dr Richard Alley:“no single temperature record from anywhere can prove or disprove global warming, because the temperature is a local record, and one site is not the whole world.”[…] An isotopic record from one site is not purely a temperature record at that site, so care is required to interpret the signal and not the noise. An extensive scientific literature exists on this topic, and I believe we are pretty good in the community at properly qualifying our statements to accord with the underlying scientific literature; the blogospheric misuses of the GISP2 isotopic data that I have seen are not doing so, and are making errors of interpretation as a result.” (Dr. Richard Alley).Reality Check on Old Ice, Climate and CO2What has happened to temperatures at the top of Greenland ice sheet since 1855?“Jason Box is one of the most prominent scientists working on Greenland and he has a recent paper reconstructing Greenland temperatures for the period 1840-2007. He was kind enough to supply with a temperature reconstruction for the GRIP drilling site — 28 km from GISP2.”Confusing Greenland warming vs global warmingThis is what the annual average temperature record looks like:Updated graph:If we update the denier version:Which brings us 100% in tune with NASA GISS data ,and ALL other modern temperature data from oceans and satellites.https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/Two long-term ocean-only temp series (with 95% conf. intervals) shows the same trend as weather stations and satellite data:http://www.realclimate.org/index...Isolated satellite data shows same trend as weather stations and ocean data:RSS: This is from their home page:http://images.remss.com/msu/msu_...It’s A Match: Satellite and Ground Measurements Agree on Warminghttps://www.scientificamerican.c...Roger Fjellstad Olsen's answer to Have climate change deniers finally accepted that the 'pause' never happened? One never hears them mention it these days.Roger Fjellstad Olsen's answer to What are the causes of climate change?

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