NOAA shows ‘the pause’ in the U.S. surface temperature record over nearly a decade

Wattsupwiththat.com ^ | June 7, 2014 | by Anthony Watts

[Buffalo Head]

Thanks for the excellent post.

Questions:

1. What is the ideal earth temperature?

2. For who or what?

3. Who decides that and how was it or will it be determined?

4. Is the earth's surface temperature getting closer to or further away from the hypothetical ideal temperature?

5. If the above questions can't be answered with certainty, why do folks waste time even discussing the subject?

Oh, it's only about redistributing wealth? Now I get it. None of the above matters.

[Intolerant in NJ]

I don’t know about other locations, but the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware dot is smack in the middle of the Philadelphia, Camden, Wilmington complex that provides one gigantic concrete heat sink for miles around - weathercasters on Philly TV regularly specify that temps in the city are going to be a couple of degrees warmer than outlying areas because of the retention effect - hard to see how this provides an unbiased set of readings.....

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Great post!