Global Warming
Saw this in the NY Times today talking about the abnormally cool winter this year. Now I don’t know if we’re having an impact on temperatures or not, or even if it would be a bad thing if we were, but I want to point something out that’s always bugged me about global climate studies.
It’s hard as hell to find real temperature numbers in any climate change story. They ALWAYS use things like anomaly, and temperature deviation from some average - and arbitrary - time-frame. Here’s a chart from the above article to illustrate.
Notice how there are no hard numbers anywhere? No where in this fairly detailed story does it give the actual temperature, and that bothers me.
gk
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