climate summary conus 2009 noaa
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa...arch/cag3/na.html apparently it really was that cold
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Yep.
Now go and select the entire year and check out the plotline from 1895 to last year and you'll discover that the average annual temperature has risen around 1.5 deg F in the last 115 years.
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due to the 50k year occillations, not surprised
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So, what you're saying is
a two year trend means that global warming is over (yay!) but a fifty thousand year trend means that global warming is over (yay!), amiright?
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not at all,
For example, dating of lake deposits in the Western United States showed surprisingly regular cycles of drought and flood  which seemed to match the 21,000-year cycle predicted by Milankovitchdepends on where we are on the cycle |