However, before embarking on your own analysis, you should consider what questions you're trying to answer and how to avoid misleading yourself. There are two very important and extremely complex areas: proxies and forcing.
Proxies are the use of data other than temperature measurements to infer temperature, such as tree rings and ice cores.
Forcing is the second-order effects of more CO2 such as causing more water evaporation - whic is itself a greenhouse gas.