Global Temperature Update through April...

gracetoyou

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....UAH satellite measured surface temperatures:



http://www.drroyspencer.com/2015/05/uah-v6-0-global-temperature-update-for-april-2015-0-07-deg-c/
 

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the line at 0.0 was determined how???
Just exactly how did they determine what temperature to use? Science is what, a few hundred yrs old, Earth is a few billion yrs old, and has experienced more than a few climate changes....From one Ice age to the next how warm did it get... and since man wasn't here then what caused the warm up?

38 yrs ago I was taught the northern ice would melt away at an ever increasing rate, it was taught in earth science of the day.
Funny how what they said would happen is happening just like we were taught, and no one ever heard of global warming back then
 
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the line at 0.0 was determined how???
Just exactly how did they determine what temperature to use? Science is what, a few hundred yrs old, Earth is a few billion yrs old, and has experienced more than a few climate changes....From one Ice age to the next how warm did it get... and since man wasn't here then what caused the warm up?

38 yrs ago I was taught the northern ice would melt away at an ever increasing rate, it was taught in earth science of the day.
Funny how what they said would happen is happening just like we were taught, and no one ever heard of global warming back then


Look brah, you've got to have faith. Just because you don't believe doesn't mean it isn't true.
 

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I didn't say it wasn't true,
I just said that we were taught yrs ago it was a part of the cycle of ice ages/warm ups the earth goes through.
 
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You were taught that before there was absolute proof that the climate has been affected solely by man for the last 4 billion years.
 
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Easy now boys. Tell ya'll what. We see a lot of bickering in here. I'm gonna give ya'll a new target so you can agree on something. Maybe ya'll can unite. Maybe I can help spark the Paddock.

Disclaimer: I don't give a ****. Don't give a big flying F*** if this planet burns up like Michael Jackson's afro in a Pepsi commercial. Don't care. I'll be dead in 30 or so years, so of I die of some dick rot or liver failure, who cares? I don't I'm dead. But frankly I just don't give a ****. I live in Florida. It's 90 everyday. So go ahead. I.don't.care.






P.S. Don't give a ****.
 

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Easy now boys. Tell ya'll what. We see a lot of bickering in here. I'm gonna give ya'll a new target so you can agree on something. Maybe ya'll can unite. Maybe I can help spark the Paddock.

Disclaimer: I don't give a ****. Don't give a big flying F*** if this planet burns up like Michael Jackson's afro in a Pepsi commercial. Don't care. I'll be dead in 30 or so years, so of I die of some dick rot or liver failure, who cares? I don't I'm dead. But frankly I just don't give a ****. I live in Florida. It's 90 everyday. So go ahead. I.don't.care.






P.S. Don't give a ****.
I'm getting a vibe here....need to re-read your post to be sure though...:D
 

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I only care about 1 thing: minimizing the number of hot days where I'm a completely sweaty mess. It's early freaking May, in upstate New York, and it's 85 degrees at 4 in the GD afternoon.

Why can't we just have 50 to 60 degree weather? Is that so much to ask for?
 

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Good and warm today. Warm enough to grill out.

Later on, we're going to party with Haley and Rick in Winchester. Good times.

Just wish the Reds could hit with runners in scoring position!
 

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Funny how it is warmer in areas that are usually cooler this time of year but cooler in areas that are usually warmer this time of year. It is cooler here in Oklahoma than normal. On a side note, we are having a lot of rain so....
 

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the line at 0.0 was determined how???
Just exactly how did they determine what temperature to use? Science is what, a few hundred yrs old, Earth is a few billion yrs old, and has experienced more than a few climate changes....From one Ice age to the next how warm did it get... and since man wasn't here then what caused the warm up?

38 yrs ago I was taught the northern ice would melt away at an ever increasing rate, it was taught in earth science of the day.
Funny how what they said would happen is happening just like we were taught, and no one ever heard of global warming back then

The 0.0 line was derived from using the average of temperatures over the course of a certain time frame. Each year they calculate the average from that year and calculating how far it is away from the average over the years they used. Pretty simple actually. It is not just a made up temperature lol.
 

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The 0.0 line was derived from using the average of temperatures over the course of a certain time frame. Each year they calculate the average from that year and calculating how far it is away from the average over the years they used. Pretty simple actually. It is not just a made up temperature lol.

I think what he meant was that temperatures have wildly fluctuated for millions of years on earth so how can we say anything is average. Average is relative to what we've seen since record keeping began in 1880. But you are correct it's not made up, it's just relative.
 
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I think what he meant was that temperatures have wildly fluctuated for millions of years on earth so how can we say anything is average. Average is relative to what we've seen since record keeping began in 1880. But you are correct it's not made up, it's just relative.
I see what you're saying and I agree that it is tough to determine what years to actually use because temperature has shifted ever since it has been recorded, but that is just IT. This whole Global Warming deal uses what has happened over and over throughout history and turns it into a scare tactic wanting everyone to believe that THIS TIME there will be a different outcome. Ice melts....Ice forms. Temperature drops...Temperature rises. Ocean levels Increase...Ocean levels decrease. It is the way of life lol.
 

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The sea level in Miami has risen one foot over the last 80 years due to the accelerated warming due mostly to greenhouse gases. At the current rate a lot of beach front property will be under water in 20 years and by the end of the century many coastal cities will be under water, including Manhattan.

Yes changes like this have occurred historically in the past but over hundreds of thousands of years, not a few decades.

I won't be around when the worst comes but many of you will be and the kids and grandchildren will to. It's time to quit denying the obvious and start doing something about it.
 
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I'd like to see all debate about climate and climate change put into this context: Is the world, overall, getting better or worse whether there is or isn't man-made climate change? Using the United Nations' own reports, what is clear is that in the 30 years or so in which climate change has been a preoccupation of western media, there has been massive improvement in quality of life among the most poor in Africa and Asia: an agricultural boom, a drastic reduction in famine and disease and much greater material wealth.

That is almost never reported, while the much less significant debate over climate change is subject to an endless drumbeat of media coverage. Climate Change is a concern of a narrow, white, rich, politically correct cultural elite in scientific and media circles. Stories about the agricultural boom that has increased the caloric intake of the average African child by 200 percent in the past 20 years is none of those things.

Think it would depend if the country in Africa has a stable, responsible government or not.

Madagascar has lost much of it's original forest from human activity. It now suffers desertification, erosion and poor water quality which leads to more outside support to feed it's population.
Zimbabwe use to produce food surpluses, but since political changes it now can not feed it's own people.
They maybe producing more food but at the cost of slash and burn the forest lands.
Then there is cash crop farming such as tobacco that has expanded in Africa which takes up what arable land there is.
 

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I think what he meant was that temperatures have wildly fluctuated for millions of years on earth so how can we say anything is average. Average is relative to what we've seen since record keeping began in 1880. But you are correct it's not made up, it's just relative.
Thank you, and you are correct in your assumption of what I meant.


My question comes from the fact that the most dinosaur fossils are found in the northern part of the U.S.
unless they got there from the shifting of the earths plates, the temperature had to be much much warmer then