What Is Earth's Temperature, Now or Then? Can We Even Be Sure?

American Thinker ^ | 03/09/2020 | Jonathan Moseley

[SeekAndFind]

Is Planet Earth warming, cooling, or staying the same? I often challenge advocates for climate alarmism: what is the temperature of the planet today? Or we can use any specific day in recent years for which data are available. We cannot know the temperature of the planet thousands or millions of years ago if we cannot even measure it today.

Yes, the question is one single temperature of the entire planet. Not the temperature in Nome, Alaska or Dallas, Texas, or Sydney, Australia or in your home town. One single temperature reading for the entire globe. To put it that way immediately sounds strange.

But if we don't have a single temperature reading for the entire planet for today, how can we say if the planet is getting warmer or cooler or not changing at all? We cannot talk about the temperature in, say, Geneva or London or New York City only. The question is whether the entire planet is getting warmer, not isolated cities.

Some of us have forgotten basic statistics. Some avoided it in school. But most of us are vaguely familiar with the random sampling process used in public opinion surveys. We see opinion polls in the news all the time. If we want to know how the USA's estimated 153 million registered voters are going to vote on Election Day, but we don't want to actually ask all 153 million of them, we have to follow (not violate) strict statistical methodologies for taking samples that are smaller than the entire "universe" or total population.

[SkyDancer]

Well AlGore said the Earth’s core is a million degrees.

[Red Badger]

Heat Wave
Linda Ronstadt

Whenever I’m with him
Something inside starts to burning
And I’m filled with desire
Could it be the devil in me
Or is this the way love’s supposed to be?

It’s like a heat wave
Burning in my heart
Can’t keep from crying
It’s tearing me apart
Whenever he calls my name
Soft, low, sweet and plain, I feel, yeah yeah

Well I feel that burning flame
Has high blood pressure got a hold on me
Or is this the way love’s supposed to be?
It’s like a heat wave
Burning in my heart
Can’t keep from crying
It’s tearing me apart

Sometimes I stare into space
Tears all over my face
I can’t explain it don’t understand it
I hadn’t ever felt like this before
Now that funny feeling has me amazed
I don’t know what to do my head’s in a haze

It’s like a heat wave
Burning in my heart
Can’t keep from crying
It’s tearing me apart

Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah, oh oh
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, oh
Don’t pass up this chance
This time it’s true romance

Heat wave
Heat wave
Heat wave
Ooh, heat wave

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Edward Jr. Holland / Lamont Dozier / Brian Holland

Heat Wave lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

[Beowulf9]

Good point. Good article.

[Bommer]

This s the argument that Ive used for years. That if there is global warming going on, then what is the optimal tempreture for the earth and how long was it constantly at that temperature? Argued with experts on the subject and no one has ever given me an answer. Then I just say “I may be a global warming denier, but you idiots are parrots and liars!”

[olepap]

Exactly. We must determine the optimum planetary temperature and then keep it there

[GingisK]

When it was hotter there was thick plant live all over the planet.

[GingisK]

Who has been messing with the thermostat?

[sasquatch]

Here’s a method rejected by the whale huggers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acoustic_tomography

[sasquatch]

Jerry’s friend

[rarestia]

what is the optimal tempreture for the earth and how long was it constantly at that temperature?

THANK YOU! I've asked this question so many times, and I never get an answer. I also ask them if their "ideal" is that it's 72F all day every day year around. They look at me like I'm an idiot, but I wait for an answer. Never got one.

[aquila48]

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