It's not anecdotal evidence I'm all that interested in, Ebbie, because anecdotal evidence is more often about changing local weather than it is about anything which would shed much light on questions of overall global warming.

No, it's actual observations by trained scientific personnel such as climatologists that I am interested in....deep ice core samples from the ice pack over Greenland and in other locations...atmospheric temperature readings done by balloon and satellite...surface temperature readings done in consistent locations with professional equipment, the geological record of the past, that sort of thing.

That's what I find more reliable than computer models or anecdotes, because it's direct scientific observation of actual confirmed data...not hypothetical projections based on a computer model.

I'm not much interested in the anecdotal stuff from people here and there, because it varies too much and it is too dependent on rapidly changing weather patterns in a single season for a single location. I don't consider that very helpful in determining whether or not we are experiencing global warming, nor does it help in determining exactly what is causing such global warming....and that is what I'm mostly concerned about: what are the primary causes? Man-made or natural? If they are natural causes, then the GW theory the IPCC is espousing is incorrect.

I have heard some murmurs lately that world temperatures have stopped increasing in the last few years...I don't know if that's correct or not. It may be. I'd have to look into it further, because I have no basis yet for either categorically denying or totally accepting that notion.