Global Warming, Pt II

I've had some interesting conversations about Global Warming recently. I lamented in my last post on the topic (Global Cooling) that I hadn't seen any skeptical responses to the national report that recently came out.

Fortunately, I have friends that keep up with this stuff.

A Statistician Speaks

Overall, our committee believes that Dr. Mann’s assessments that the decade of the 1990s was the hottest decade of the millennium and that 1998 was the hottest year of the millennium cannot be supported by his analysis.

The actual report:
AD HOC COMMITTEE REPORT ON THE ‘HOCKEY STICK’ GLOBAL CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION

Of course, it's tough to quote the report itself:

This committee does not believe
that web logs are an appropriate forum for the scientific debate on this issue.