Maggie's Farm

Dear cucurbitae ... I'm surprised that you think average temperatures for a location mean that every day one experiences in that location has to conform to the temperature on that day in previous years. It doesn't work that way. In each location on this globe, there will be days warmer than normal or colder than normal for a specific day. Only by stepping back a little and averaging the temperature over a fixed period, like a year or ten years, can you get a more accurate fix.

I can remember when it snowed in Milwaukee on my birthday [June 14] one year. I remember it because it was unusual. A few years later, it was 82 degrees on that day. Milwaukee generally warms up beginning in April and by June it can be called early summer. But there are variations.

The problems we have with many so-called 'climate scientists' getting hold of computers and trying to extrapolate generalizations from specific data, is that they often leave things out, maybe from memory lapses, maybe from insufficient data, as Al Gore's captive scientists did when they neglected to include the Little Ice Age [often called The Summer That Never Was] and the Mediaeval Warming Period in their initial calculations.

I think the expression is Garbage In, Garbage Out, among computer cognoscenti. I wouldn't know. I'm just an old lady with a good memory.

Marianne

Well, Webspinner, the "pestilence, famine and death" thingie seems to be well on its way, since January. Your comment about carbon dioxide being a "lagging indicator" is right on. CO2, in spite of what the Goracle says, is an essential gas, not a greenhouse gas. You want to live in a sandbox, eliminate CO2, which is an essential fertilizer for all green plants. Also to be noted is that every living thing that breathes is a CO2 generator, including you, my friend, and Al Gore himself.

Which is why he isn't really serious about lowering is CO2 consumption and generation.

And I have done the research, sir or madam, whichever you may be. Apparently, you haven't. May I suggest that you get with the program, and do some research yourself?

Marianne