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Warmest March In Global Recordkeeping (wunderground.com)
Layzej quotes a report from Weather Underground: March 2016 was by far the planet's warmest March since record keeping began in 1880. In the NOAA database, March 2016 came in a full 1.22C (2.20F) warmer than the 20th-century average for March, as well as 0.32C (0.58F) above the previous record for March, set in 2010. This is a huge margin for breaking a monthly global temperature record, as they are typically broken by just a few hundredths of a degree. Global satellite-measured temperatures also found this March to be the warmest -- the sixth consecutive monthly record in the UAH satellite data set. Gavin Schmidt, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies has estimated that 2016 already has over a 99% chance of being the hottest year on record, based on the first three months alone.
Honest question.
I ride my bike to work. My house is powered by a solar panel installation. I recycle everything I can, compost a lot of the rest, and generate very little actual garbage. I do have a car but it's rare I actually need to use it.
What exactly am I supposed to do about global warming? Yell at my neighbours because their piece of shit 1970s automobile spews a cloud of toxic black crap every time they pull out of the driveway? Make funny faces at the moron down the street who insists on driving a hummer every time he passes my house? Stand on the side of the road with a sign over my shoulders that says "REPENT, THE END IS NEIGH"?
I'm just one person. Most of my close friends and family are mindful about their impact on the planet just as much as I am. I don't know what we're supposed to do beyond that, though. When I hear shit about the crap places like India and China are pumping into the air, I wonder why the hell I'm bothering in the first place. I suppose 'cause it's the right thing to do, but I don't know how much of a difference a dozen of people could possibly make.
Your hyperbolic defensiveness was very amusing. Thanks.
If you prefer, same temperature, 2F change, but it -would have been- 3F mitigated by a -1F attributable to non-anthropogenic variation.
Again, what is the "right number" as a target, given that I presume you aren't arguing for purely arbitrary objectives for the purpose of literally-unquestionable political "give us unlimited budgets and power for the purpose of achieving... something".
And yes, this was very much a "conspiracy" in the political sense, and absolutely factually so.
~ Whence do you come, slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?
No, I'm showing that it isn't noticeable as a person.
That is simply not true. If by cherry picking a single graph you were trying to say that it wasn't noticeable as a person and that is why people don't care about this, how does that lead to you saying that "lets not pretend this isn't a shill post for the AGW debate"? Just because it might be too large a phenomenon to notice personally, doesn't mean that climate change is wrong as you have suggested.
how would you have an average temperature during the day from 1921? would a man sit there and write down the temperature into a ledger every 5 minutes or every hour? You're asking for something that doesn't exist
No, I'm not asking for that. You are the one who brought up the ludicrous requirement of a reading every 5 minutes. In fact, all I have done is look at the graphs that you presented to us. If the maximums and minimums don't show a great variability between the years while the average temperature anomaly has changed considerably, then they can't have just taken a single measurement of the max and min values. They must have taken more readings. If you don't trust the other graphs on that page then why would you trust the first one?
If you look at old temperature records they tend to show the temperature at a given time every day or a maximum and minimum temperature reached during that day.
Forgive me for not taking your word on this, but a citation is required for this claim.
Anyway... if you want to discuss this civilly you'll find me a genial fellow. If you instead want to trade barbs you'll find I know how to draw blood as well as any.
This is coming from the civil person who said "show me the papers I need to sign to make the people that keep harping on about this stuff murder suicide each other" and then say that the whole post this started this was actually shill post by apparently corrupt individuals who "want total dictatorial control over the economy". Yep, calls for murder-suicide and accusations of corruption are the height of civility.