'AGW? I refute it THUS!': Central England Temperatures 1659 to 2009

If there's anyone left you know who STILL believes in Anthropogenic Global Warming, you might want to show them this chart.

The Central England Temperature dataset is the oldest in the world – with 351 years of temperature records drawn from "multiple weather stations located both in urban and rural areas of England, which is considered a decent proxy for Northern Hemisphere temperatures – not perfect, but decent." Climate Cycles Change provides the analysis.

The first characteristic of the...