"Second, your graph is for 1992-2008 and can not be used to refute my claim which covered 150 years."


Your claim covering the past 150 yrs PDQ, lacks todays sophisticated technology, which there's no use in trying to compare the 2, give it up! In the past 16 yrs our scienctific reseach has advanced at a far greater rate that the privious 134 yrs that you're refering to.

There is now evidence that the sea ice at the polor regions are acting as insulators & trapping solor heat, furthing the ice cap melt. This many present a problem when this reaches a tipping point. But lets wait to see who wins the argument 1st & deal with all the problem afterwards,,,,,whne it's too late.

From a non PHD'd but very common sensed layperson.

Even non scientific photo's taken of glacier & & snow pack regions
during the 30's show that the toll taken to this regions has been such that it's impack is clearly visible compared to pictures taken after & up to the present. The Westen US ranges that supply the watershed for that half of the nation is becoming arid bound. Lake Meade is half of what it was, the Colorado is disappearing, the Platte which was once a trade & cargo route barely could be called a stream today. DO we need to dry up & shrivle before you'd admit to maybe a slight "we should consider the outcome" or would you prefere
we deal with istakes after they've been made & when they can't be made right.

Barry