I suspect that we have been in a mild spell compared to the mid 1800s, at least in this part of the world, as inferred from clues such as onset of growth earlier in the Spring, lack of rivers freezing over, and so on. The temperature measurements, however, may well be junk - close scrutiny, which seems to be applied only by "amateurs", certainly suggests so. However, so what? There have probably been lots of occasions since the last Ice Age when temperatures rose for decades in a row, long before man's CO2 emissions can have mattered. You seem to think that pointing at a bit of global warming somehow supports Global Warming - not so.
I suspect that we have been in a mild spell compared to the mid 1800s, at least in this part of the world, as inferred from clues such as onset of growth earlier in the Spring, lack of rivers freezing over, and so on. The temperature measurements, however, may well be junk - close scrutiny, which seems to be applied only by "amateurs", certainly suggests so. However, so what? There have probably been lots of occasions since the last Ice Age when temperatures rose for decades in a row, long before man's CO2 emissions can have mattered. You seem to think that pointing at a bit of global warming somehow supports Global Warming - not so.
ReplyDeleteAh, what I wouldn't give for an ice age now.
ReplyDeleteThe graph looks bad but it's actually only a rise of about 0.9 of a degree farenheit in fifty years or so.
ReplyDeleteLet's have the ice, JPT.
ReplyDeleteNo, the cold weather has made me realise that my front and back doors (both new) have developed a fault... A howling gale is blowing through them!
ReplyDeleteYou need draft excluders.
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