Wow, the above post is also on the previous page.
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So is the clown.
What I posted has far more to do with realistic
consideration of CO2 than some dumb and dumber
discussion.
I think I'll put it on this page alsom maybe you and
dumber will be able to absuorb is some day.
1934 has long been considered the warmest year
of the past century. A decade ago, the closest
challenger appeared to be 1998, a super-el nino
year, but it trailed 1934 by 0.54°C (0.97°F).
Since then,
NASA GISS has adjusted the U.S.
data for 1934 downward and 1998 upward (see
December 25, 2010 post by Ira Glickstein)
in an
attempt to make 1998 warmer than 1934 and
seemingly erased the original rather large lead of
1934 over 1998. The last phases of the strong
2009-2010 el nino in early 2010 made this year
another possible contender for the warmest year
of the century. However, December 2010 has
been one of the coldest Decembers in a century
in many parts of the world, so 2010 probably
wont be warmer than 1998.
But does it really matter? Regardless of which
year wins the temperature adjustment battle,
how significant will that be? To answer that
question, we need to look at a much longer time
frame; centuries and millennia.
Have your ever heard of the Roman warm period,
the dark age cool period, the medieval warm period
and the little ice age???
So where do the 1934/1998/2010 warm years rank
in the long-term list of warm years? Of the past
10,500 years, 9,100 were warmer than 1934/1998/2010.
Thus, regardless of which year ( 1934, 1998,
or 2010) turns out to be the warmest of the
past century, that year will rank number 9,099
in the long-term list.
The climate has been warming slowly since the Little
Ice Age, but it has quite a ways to go yet before
reaching the temperature levels that persisted for
nearly all of the past 10,500 years.
