[NELSON111]

40 degrees above NORMAL takes into account that it’s summer and the sun is overhead. That is WAY above normal for any place in the planet, but especially a place that has a high albedo.

There is zero debate the earth is warming. Those who deny it are idiots and look foolish. HOWEVER-there is also zero debate we are coming out of a severe cooling cycle called LIA and the cause of the current warming trend is most likely cyclical (solar related) AND there is zero debate the earth has been warmer in the relatively recent past (last 4000 years). Those who attribute the current warming trend to anthropogenic causes alone fall into two categories: idiots and liars. The liars are indeed doing it because of an agenda-not so based on money-but Agenda 21. I say all of this as a 32 year professional meteorologist.

[TigersEye]

There is zero debate the earth is warming.

If it weren't warming we wouldn't say that "the Little Ice Age ended about 170 years ago." That wouldn't make sense.

[ifinnegan]

“There is zero debate the earth is warming.”

How is that determined?

[rbmillerjr]

“There is zero debate the earth is warming.”

“AND there is zero debate the earth has been warmer in the relatively recent past (last 4000 years)”

You may want to explain these contradictory assertions.