The thing you need to remember is that while “figures don’t lie, liars figure.” As the brilliant (and mediocre writer) Dr Michael Crichton pointed out some years ago in the appendix to the novel “State of Fear,” raw temperature data indicates that average temperatures have been falling for a century while the “adjusted” average temperatures used by the UN IPCC and other advocates for the Cataclysmic AGW hypothesis have been rising. Here is an example comparing raw and adjusted data. If you believe that so-called “climate scientists” like Phil Jones can write a computer routine that can take the average temperature in Sacramento and compute the average temperature in Eugene, Oregon with an accuracy of less than 0.1 degree, then you should believe that the AGW hypothesis is proven. I was a heat transfer expert for over 50 years, and I don’t believe it. But, I’m just an old Mechanical Engineer.