There are many temperature records (estimates of the earth's average air temperature). They can get their predictions to barely stay within the 2SD level by carefully choosing which record to compare with. Of course they use the temperature records which global warming alarmists have full control of, and of course they fiddle with the data to make their case look better.
But it's falling apart. Here's today's news:
Top scientists start to examine fiddled global warming figures
The Telegraph, April 25, 2015
But here there is a puzzle. These temperature records are not the only ones with official status. The other two, Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) and the University of Alabama (UAH), are based on a quite different method of measuring temperature data, by satellites. And these, as they have increasingly done in recent years, give a strikingly different picture. Neither shows last month as anything like the hottest March on record, any more than they showed 2014 as “the hottest year ever”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/...o-examine-fiddled-global-warming-figures.html
Now the above is not in the peer reviewed literature, and that's the very good news indeed! Instead, this is dribbling into the news that the public reads. I was shocked yesterday when the standard hourly news feed coming in through my radio mentioned yesterday's Duke report that the IPCC was wrong because it underestimated the natural variability in temperature. This is news that is heard by everyone, not just those of us who follow the subject. Soon enough you'll be hearing the same thing on NPR. Next time you see a poll on how many people are worried about CO2 you can expect that the numbers will set a new low.
The cool thing about all this is that it's shaping up nicely to be a complete scientific scandal that will be hitting the press right about the time that Americans go to vote in the next big national election. LOL! Meanwhile, the latest political news is that Hillary and husband accepted massive bribes from foreign powers and then deleted their emails. It's over. You'll see anti alarmists voted into firm power in house, senate and presidency.