Ummm Prof Dave
Your list of summer 'above average' temperatures shows a downward trend indicating that summers are getting cooler?
1998: 0.57
2005: 0.48
2003: 0.46
2002: 0.46
2004: 0.44
2001: 0.41
1997: 0.40
1995: 0.36
1999: 0.33
1990: 0.30
2000: 0.28
aviate1138
Anthropogenic warming is a crock of !!!!e
Go here
http://mclean.ch/climate/global_warming.htm and breath in some fresh air on Global Warming.
This is one of my favorites from the above website;
http://mclean.ch/climate/models.htm
And my favorite quote from that article on climate modelling
3. Comments about Scenarios used in Modelling
Stephen H. Schneider, a leading climate change advocate, said in an interview for Discover Magazine in 1989..."On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but - which means that we must include all the doubts, the caveats, the ifs, ands, and buts. On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. And like most people we'd like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climatic change. To do that we need to get some broadbased support, to capture the public's imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. This 'double ethical bind' we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both." [my emphasis added]