This morning a friend in Georgia mentioned that the common consensus among his friends there is that recent summers have been much hotter than in the past, and for that reason they're inclined to believe claims of rapid human-induced global warming. Aside from the facts that what's happening in one tiny part of the globe doesn't reveal what's happening everywhere else and that warming doesn't prove human causation, I told him I suspected the anecdotal memories might conflict with hard data. … [Read more...]