Nobody seems to pay attention to the lack of accuracy in temperature measurements that are used in global warming computer models and the pronouncements that come from their designers.

Part of my earlier career was in managing test and quality control of state-of-the-art meteorological devices. Even the best platinum resistance thermometers are only accurate to +/- 0.2 deg. F, and that's with a fresh calibration curve. Anything else is much less accurate, up to +/- 2 or 3 deg. F. If you take instrument mounting, reading and recording device errors into account, you introduce more deviation from the true temperature.

So how can anyone say with a straight face that the global temperature has risen 0.4 deg. F in a certain period of time when that is hardly noticeable in the data errors of the instruments used for the model? Preposterous!

Another huge source of error is the temperatures they use for oceans worldwide. I understand that many of the data are from sensors on ships that measure the intake temperature of the sea water they use to cool their engines. Those are almost always thermocouples which are accurate to +/- 3.0 deg. F when they are new and calibrated. They degrade over time, so +/- 5 or 6 deg F is more likely.

So consider this: a water temperature sample taken at, say, 15 ft deep (in an ocean 15,000 ft deep and 2,000 MILES WIDE), with an accuracy of, say, +/- 3 deg. F is plugged into a computer model along with hundreds of other inaccurate measurements and used to "measure" a global trend and predict our future environment.

Huge factors like sunspot activity, the enormous influence of this earth's molten core, millions of acres of burned forests, and el Nino certainly play major roles in our climate and whatever temperature we are experiencing here "on the ground."

The truth is, even the most modern instruments can't measure the temperature of your living room with the kind of accuracy they are attributing to their world models. For example, the temperature at the ceiling is probably 5 deg. F warmer than the floor, warmer or cooler by the window, and certainly different than by the A/C or heater outlet. Then, a taller person reading the thermometer will get a different reading than a shorter one, and so on.

Finally, let's not forget the bias of the scientists, who long to have their research funded by someone they almost universally hope to please. Look at who funds the research and their political leanings and you can calibrate the data more accurately.

Take all these factors into account and I'm convinced any reasonable person should see the nonsense I see in all this global warming hype.

Bob Finnie was an Engineering Writer at Cape Canaveral who wrote the Flight Test Directive for John Glenn's Atlas Booster. He later managed aerospace projects, built several businesses, and wrote 2 non-fiction books before becoming a High School Teacher and Coach, twice named to Who's Who Among America's Teachers.

Dr. Baliunas theory on Global warming makes whole lot more sense than CO2 but the UN will never embrace it because then we couldn’t blame the human race, Western civilization, and especially America. Real science does not support Greenhouse gas theory….never has and never will. I am constantly reminded of a debate I once witnessed in college. When one of the debaters had and incredibly well thought out argument, her opponent realizing she was caught in a conundrum of which there was no escape actually said, “Don’t try and confuse me with the facts…my mind is already made up.”
So I suspect is the reason many want to squash the debate on the real cause of Global Warming….. “There mind is already made up…..the facts will just confuse them.”