It should also be pointed out that the peak of the “record hot year” was in December, and in the northern hemisphere. So we didn’t actually “sizzle,” we were just (imperceptibly) less cold.
I’m reading a great book entitled Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress. It combines history, philosophy, and science, and the first few chapters really grabbed me. They deal with the problem of establishing calibration points for thermometers, and despite my engineering education and design and construction experience with thermodynamic devices (from boilers to rocket engines), I had no idea how complex the subject of boiling water is.
The “instrumental record” is supposed to have started in 1880. I would place error bars of +/-1 degree C on anything prior to 1910 (and that may not be conservative). Any “anomaly” less than that is BS.
I got the impression that during the unusually warm November we had, there was very little mention of “climate change” on the news.
I am thinking that the reasoning is that when the weather is unusually warm in a pleasant way, people will say, “Hey, this warming thing is pretty nice, isn’t it”, and we cannot have any of that.
Since the AGW alarmist movement is based on spirituality, what if the real cause of recent warming isn’t carbon emissions but the combined wishcasting of humanity for more pleasant weather?
Transient El Nino effect, not climate change. End of story.
C’mon Bart. The warming is real, not data-massaged confirmation-biased artifact, and it is this warming that is either driving or is an epi-phenomenon connected to the increase in atmospheric CO2 — the same ocean currents providing the warming are stirring up water releasing the CO2?
El Nino is certainly real. But, it is a natural, transient, recurring process that has been going on, as far as we know, since the Pacific Basin formed. It was there before we ever even knew what CO2 was. It comes. It goes. No big whup.
Without that El Nino blip in the last couple of years, there is still no warming for two decades now, even as CO2 concentration increased significantly.
It should also be pointed out that the peak of the “record hot year” was in December, and in the northern hemisphere. So we didn’t actually “sizzle,” we were just (imperceptibly) less cold.
I’m reading a great book entitled Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress. It combines history, philosophy, and science, and the first few chapters really grabbed me. They deal with the problem of establishing calibration points for thermometers, and despite my engineering education and design and construction experience with thermodynamic devices (from boilers to rocket engines), I had no idea how complex the subject of boiling water is.
The “instrumental record” is supposed to have started in 1880. I would place error bars of +/-1 degree C on anything prior to 1910 (and that may not be conservative). Any “anomaly” less than that is BS.
I got the impression that during the unusually warm November we had, there was very little mention of “climate change” on the news.
I am thinking that the reasoning is that when the weather is unusually warm in a pleasant way, people will say, “Hey, this warming thing is pretty nice, isn’t it”, and we cannot have any of that.
Since the AGW alarmist movement is based on spirituality, what if the real cause of recent warming isn’t carbon emissions but the combined wishcasting of humanity for more pleasant weather?
Transient El Nino effect, not climate change. End of story.
C’mon Bart. The warming is real, not data-massaged confirmation-biased artifact, and it is this warming that is either driving or is an epi-phenomenon connected to the increase in atmospheric CO2 — the same ocean currents providing the warming are stirring up water releasing the CO2?
El Nino is certainly real. But, it is a natural, transient, recurring process that has been going on, as far as we know, since the Pacific Basin formed. It was there before we ever even knew what CO2 was. It comes. It goes. No big whup.
Without that El Nino blip in the last couple of years, there is still no warming for two decades now, even as CO2 concentration increased significantly.