And according to NASA who said 2014 was the HOTTEST YEAR EVER... It beat the previous record by .004 degrees Celsius.
They START the records from the year 1880, BTW. So, the Earth has been around for 4 billion years or so... They’ve only been officially recording the global temperature for 134 years... And the increase is .004 degrees over the previous record (of only 134 of 4 billion YEARS).
I do believe in science. I understand its importance and applaud scientific, fact-based research. I even believe the climate has changed and is changing; there is no ideal temperature of the Earth... But I do debate whether or not mankind is at fault of the recent barely perceivable rise in global temperature over the past 5 decades.
While we can come up with a pretty good idea of what the temperature was for thousands, even millions of years by using ice core chemical and isotope analysis, tree rings, etc, it will never be as accurate as .004 degrees and not global, but rather regional, but this announcement of HOTTEST YEAR EVER is taken as gospel by the Left in all it’s “OMG we’re all going to die!” glory.
Yup. That certainly justifies trillions of dollars of new taxes to big government and draconian laws that hurt industry and commerce.
Brings to mind Al Gore’s so called “popular vote” victory in 2000. He was up by 0.51% (half a percentage point) so far inside the margin of error that it is meaningless without a national recount. His victory didn’t even include the 3,000 (and supreme court approved) contested military ballots.
His “victory” statistic is meaningless and possibly inaccurate.