Posted on 12/21/2007 6:06:18 AM PST by chessplayer
What was done Monthly surface air temperatures from manned and automatic weather stations along with ship/buoy observations from the high-latitude Southern Hemisphere were used to develop a gridded database with resolution appropriate for applications ranging from spatial trend analyses to climate change impact assessments. The data came from a total of 460 locations in the Southern Hemisphere. Temperatures over land were obtained from 19 manned stations of the World Monthly Surface Station Climatology network, most of which were located in coastal areas of the Antarctic continent, plus 73 stations of the Automated Weather Station network, many of which were situated further inland. Temperatures over the sea were obtained from the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data repository. Of particular importance in their melding of these diverse data, the authors used correlation length scaling "to enhance information content while limiting the spatial extent of influence of the sparse data in the Antarctic region."
(Excerpt) Read more at co2science.org ...
As best as I can tell, the planet’s warming is occurring on a localized basis ... generally within 50 feet of gasbags like Al Gore.
It’s going to take about a bazillion years for the Antarctic to melt at those temps.
Yes, Al has gravitationally trapped his own carbon rich atmosphere.
Or ANY other politician.
No, not gravity. He uses a fork.
Clearly, the entire continent of Antarctica, together with much of the Southern Ocean that surrounds it, has been completely oblivious to the supposedly "unprecedented" radiative impetus for warming produced by anthropogenic emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases over the last three decades of the 20th century ... and even a bit beyond.
Another REAL inconvenient truth!
Because there are no air conditioning exhausts to site the temperature stations near.
I’m 51 years old now. When I was a kid in the 60’s and early 70’s it was colder then than it is now. Even true in Antartica. Temperatures fluctuate - they go up and go down.
I’m wondering how much if this is Boomers (who characteristically everytime something happens to them feel that it is happening for the first time in the history of the world) are reacting as much to this as to anything else.
It’s been well documented that the Boomers see, do and react to everything in excess.
They were the first ones ever to get drafted, to have sex, to listen to music, to rebel against their parents etc.
So now that the Boomers are aging and recalling the times of the 60’s and 70’s they are the first ones to recall a temperature fluctuation.
I.E. global warming as YET ANOTHER operant example of Boomer Narcissism.
Global average temperature is a concept without a meaning.
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Precisely... averages mean nothing... because, on average, every person in the world has one testicle and one ovary.
I think Hillary has both.
Trent Lott has neither.
Let me add this this to the list of “firsts” achieved by the “boomers”:
“Boomers” are the the first generation to WIN the eons-old inter-generation battle between ignorant, self-absorbed adolescents on one hand, and better educated, more experienced adults on the other.
As a result, our culture since the 60’s can be described as one of the most selfish and most ignorant in history.
I’m sitting with one foot in boiling water and the other is encased in ice. On average I’m very comfortable thank you very much.
True enough - and look where it’s gotten us. Our parents were too busy making a living on the one hand, and on the other hand being told by Dr. Spock to let the little darlings explore their world, to rein us in.
How perverse the human brain is that it so easy accepts the erroneous and it’s so hard for it to grasp reality.
Brilliant! Stolen!
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