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Re:NASA releases detailed global climate change projections by kbutler on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @02:04PM (#9694129)
..by adding a correction to the more accurate buoy data, generating a combined dataset that does not match trends in the satellite data, gold-standard terrestrial data, balloon data, or oceanic temperature data.

It also reduces the long-term temperature trend to the pre-1950 trend (i.e., pre-anthropogenic trend).

This is a paper that requires a significant degree of corroboration rather than simple endorsement because of its publication.

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Re:NASA releases detailed global climate change projections by briandear on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @02:42PM (#9694394)
Pre-1950 trend? I don't get it. What happened in 1950?
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Re:NASA releases detailed global climate change projections by kbutler on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @05:13PM (#9695450)
1950 is generally accepted by both AGW skeptics and proponents as a time before which human influence on climate was not discernable. That is, the warming trend before 1950 was natural, not human-caused.

AGW skeptics assert this places a burden of proof on AGW proponents to show that warming since 1950 is beyond what could naturally occur.

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