There is a direct corellation between the number of temerature monitoring stations and the "average temperature", as displayed by the graph, above. When the questionable location of the remaining temperature stations was brought to the attention of the NOAA, their solution was to stop publishing their locations.

The IPCC is an agenda-driven organization. They've refused to release the data and methodologies used to support their claims.

Al Gore is also agenda-driven. There are numerous factual inaccuracies in his film, that he still fails to correct in his more recent presentations.

Solar activity has a demonstrable effect on current climate conditions, including mean tempeture.