You’re a good fellow at heart, I know.
I’ve grown quite cynical and it shows; worse, I’m afraid I’ve allowed some personal disappointments to infuse my discourse and perhaps my reason.
It all sounded so simple in the beginning; we live on a tornado, travelingly somewhat madly about in a hurricane wind, forever drawn and repelled by the maw of a furnace.
As long as we never looked up we never saw our nakedness, and now we stand, like turkeys caught in a fresh spring shower, heads pointed blindly toward a blazing light and crouch in shame for imagined transgressions.
But will a glass-bulb tell our fate if it’s held in the wrong hands?
This dashing rock, among millions milling aimlessly about is unique just because we say it so.
If it freeze, we die; but if it boil we die the same.
How does it warm if not the sun; does our belly bank our brain — it’s a challenge to remain sane.
Anyway, I have two simple questions for you.
1) If the surface temperature record is SO bad due to loss of thermometers or siting problems, then why do skeptics think it's good enough to show global cooling over the past decade?
2) If the record is SO bad, then why does it show, consistently, the effects of major El Nino and La Nina episodes? (I even had to fix the missing image in my profile, point #4, for this!)