[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Wasn't there mention of some skullduggery in reference to the use of core sample analyses that Al Gore presented in his ode to self, "An Inconvenient Truth"? I seem to recall someone stating that he rather conveniently omitted samples that contradicted his case. I remember hearing about it all but have been unable to find reference to it on the 'net this morning. I'm not being a very good scientist, I know... LOL! I'll keep looking later this morning.

Presenting us with a sample here as you have Bert, could you give us some background on its source and also comment on what I just stated? I notice that that even though CO2 concentration looks to be rising above previous trends it is, however, rising in unison with previous peaks. What does this indicate? The graph's resolution is 50,000 years per division, and I suspect that this is too low to properly gauge the real rise over the past 1,000 years. I'd like to see it show that there is a distinct correlation between this concentration and human activity starting with the industrial revolution. Can anyone point me to a reliable source to show this? All I can conclude from that graph is that there is currently a high concentration of CO2 where the (average) samples were taken. Antarctic ice and Mauna Loa are just two locations on a very large Earth.

I'm not being purposefully condescending or attempting to challenge your presentation Bert - just the opposite - I'd like more information. One graph is a pretty small sample space you have to admit.