Wow too much information. Thanks Jim. Glad the whales did not get you.

"Berkeley Earth has just released analysis of land-surface temperature records going back 250 years, about 100 years further than previous studies. The analysis shows that global warming is real, and the best explanation of the temperature trend is a combination of volcanoes and CO2."

http://berkeleyearth.org/

"When we began our study, we felt that skeptics had raised legitimate issues, and we didn't know what we'd find. Our results turned out to be close to those published by prior groups. We think that means that those groups had truly been very careful in their work, despite their inability to convince some skeptics of that. "

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change approves of higher atmospheric CO2 levels insofar as it will tend to forestall another glaciation of Vancouver Island: http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/ ... tcause.pdf