Posted on 12/13/2007 4:20:25 PM PST by blam
Just kidding.
Dennis Miller put it best. Something to the effect....
A hundred years ago, people were still going outside to crap, just how much faith do you want to put into the weather record keeping of the time?
In 1960 there were about 200 weather stations worldwide and their records depended on the janitor remembering to write down the temperature at noon. How you would extrapolate this kind of data to a global temperature is a kind of mystery.
Statistics. There is no way we know what the average temperature was 100 years ago, nor do we know now. It all depends on how you analyze the raw data.
Well THERE is the problem Pseudo Scientists. Your range is far too small to be taken seriously considering the planet is billion of years old.
Embezzlement scandal
[The WMO is being investigated by Swiss authorities over allegations of vote-buying in its election process. Swiss prosecutors are investigating whether delegates at the WMO received payments from former employee, Muhammad Hassan, to sway the outcome of the 2003 election. Hassan, a Sudanese national, served as chief of the fellowship program in WMO’s training department and is suspected of stealing $3.5 million from the WMO.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Meteorological_Organization
What happened to the re-calculation a few months back that made 1934 the warmest year in the last century?
“On record” being the key phrase. In the meantime, they’re telling us that the snows of Kilamanjaro are melting for the first time in 11,000 years. Though they don’t tell us how they know that. Or more importantly, what caused the melting then.
If they are in keeping with past studies by this group, the methods by which they arrived at the figures are deep, dark secrets. GISS has been far more forthcoming - they at least will tell you what sites they used, even if they only recently provided even partial information on how they did the calculations.
Forgot the sarcasim tags...
Thank you for posting that.
Only an idiot would believe that the mean temperature of the earth can be known, or matters a twit.
I do, however, know where you would put the thermometer to find out:
In Algore.
It’s 27 degrees here,brrr
Lest we forget the first half-billion tears when the surface temp averaged 800C
From the 40s to the 70s, the fear was global cooling. In the 80s, the fear was a shrinking ozone layer. In the 90s, the fear was radon level. In this decade, the fear is global warming. Does anyone else see the pattern that’s developing, i.e., that a group of people is exciting everyone to the ridiculous every 10 years?
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