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On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:46:54 -0700 (PDT), "kdthrge@earthlink.net"
<kdthrge@earthlink.net> wrote:

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That the surface of the Earth has warmed over the last several
decades is a fact supported by many independent sources . . .

- Arctic sea ice extent is decreasing
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/n_plot_hires.png

- Antarctic mass is decreasing
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/20100108_Is_Antarctica_Melt...

- Global sea level is rising
http://sealevel.colorado.edu/current/sl_ib_ns_global.jpg 
http://www.cmar.csiro.au/sealevel/
http://sealevel.colorado.edu/current/sl_ib_ns_global.jpg
http://sealevel.colorado.edu/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Recent_Sea_Level_Rise.png
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/pd/climate/factsheets/issea.pdf


-Troposphere temperature is increasing 
http://pielkeclimatesci.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/0710_graf.jpg?w=500&h=183


-- A map of global temperature trends shows warming.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/do_nmap.py?year_last=3D2009&month=
_last=3D12&sat=3D4&sst=3D1&type=3Dtrends&mean_gen=3D0112&year1=3D1880&year2=
=3D2009&base1=3D1951&base2=3D1980&radius=3D1200&pol=3Dreg

-- The global ground weather station network shows warming:
These data are from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt
The yearly means of these data are graphed here:
http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/Global%20Mean%20Temp.jpg

These data come from the UK's Hadley Centre:
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/hadcrut3gl.txt
The yearly means of these data are graphed here:
http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/HadCRUT3gl.jpg

-- The Sea Surface Temperature, or SST, record
Here, from Hadley Centre, are the global sea surface
temperatures from 1850 to 2009.  Please see:
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/hadsst2gl.txt
The yearly means of these data are graphed here:
http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/HadSST2gl.jpg

-- Two balloon records show this same surface level warming:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/ratpac/index.php
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/ratpac/index.php?name=3Dratpac-a
The data are found in the "year" and "surf" columns of the "GLOBE"
section of this file:
http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ratpac/ratpac-a/RATPAC-A-annual-levels.t=
xt
These very robust global yearly mean ground data are graphed here:
http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/RATPAC-A-Balloon.jpg

http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/temp/angell/angell.html
http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/ftp/trends/temp/angell/global.dat
These global yearly mean ground data are graphed here:
http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/Angell-Balloon.jpg

-- The satellite record, in all its current interpretations,
shows that the air near the surface is warming too.
For background on the satellite temperature proxy please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_temperature_measurements

The URL below is one of the more conservative records
from the University of Alabama at Huntsville.
http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/public/msu/t2lt/tltglhmam_5.3
The global data are graphed here:
http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/UAH-MSU.jpg

The Remote Sensing Systems Lower Troposphere (TLT) analysis
shows a 0.16K/Decade rise over the land and sea.
http://www.remss.com/data/msu/monthly_time_series/RSS_Monthly_MSU_AMSU_Chan=
nel_TLT_Anomalies_Land_and_Ocean_v03_2.txt
The data from 82.5N to 70S are graphed here:
http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/RSS-MSU.jpg

-- The glacier retreat record:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2009/3046/
http://nsidc.org/sotc/glacier_balance.html
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/pd/climate/factsheets/isamount.pdf

-- The bore hole records:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/huang.html
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/pollack.html