Global Warming Data for the Rest of Us

I realize that the case for Global Warming is based on "complex models" that nobody but the most sophisticated climatologists can understand, but . . .



don't you think the above chart makes it a little harder to join the "question is settled" crowd? Don't you think that the news media getting excited over one of these oscillating spikes is a bit naïve? As a statistician, this data looks pretty random around a zero mean to me.