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Global Cooling 1/2 degree in last 2 years.


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2018 May 18, 1:27pm   62,132 views  430 comments

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https://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/860837?section=newsfront&keywords=earth-cool-half-degree-nasa&year=2018&month=05&date=16&id=860837&aliaspath=%2FManage%2FArticles%2FTemplate-Main

The average global temperature dropped by more than half a degree Celsius from February 2016 to February 2018, according to recent NASA data.

Read Newsmax: NASA Data: Earth Cooled by Half a Degree Celsius From '16-'18

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121   LeonDurham   2018 May 29, 1:01pm  

Onvacation says
Alarmists claim to have them?


Is that a question?
122   curious2   2018 May 29, 1:03pm  

LeonDurham says
Of course you need to calculate the means of the populations. Why would you think that I am saying otherwise?


Because you did. T-testing only compounds your error: you're skipping the calculation of the mean in order to apply GIGO analyses. You can stare at tea leaves as long as you like, but they remain tea leaves, and analysis does not confer more significance than they started with. I would actually agree the data can probably be measured to some degree of accuracy and precision, but marcus ignores those limits and stretches the data further, and that's before even starting on all the "adjustments" that go into the models.

LeonDurham says
That is just being purposely difficult.


Yes, you are, by asking me endless questions that you should see answered in your own comments while refusing to answer the only question that matters.
123   LeonDurham   2018 May 29, 1:22pm  

curious2 says

Because you did. T-testing only compounds your error: you're skipping the calculation of the mean in order to analyze in various GIGO processes. You can stare at tea leaves as long as you like, but they remain tea leaves, and analysis does not change them. I would actually agree the data can probably be measured to some degree of accuracy and precision, but you insist on skipping over those limits and tretching the data further, and that's before even starting on all the "adjustments."


No I didn't. I think you misread my reply. Which is fine. Let's agree that obviously one needs to calculate the mean of the population. The point is that sig figs are less important than sample size in that calculation.

curious2 says
Yes, you are, by asking me endless questions that you should see answered in your own comments while refusing to answer the only question that matters.


Wow--did you just pull a "I know you are, but what am I" there? Well done. Your question presumes facts not in evidence which is what I pointed out in my question to you.
124   Onvacation   2018 May 29, 2:55pm  

jazz_music says

Agreed, you could just happen to be a stupid person!

If one has no counter argument one can always question the source or attack the person.
The fact that the temperature is NOT going up and the sea level is NOT rising catastrophically should be a clue to the alarmists that their models are wrong.
125   Onvacation   2018 May 29, 2:55pm  

And anyone that thinks the worldwide average temperature could be accurately measured over a century ago is either willfully ignorant or brainwashed.
126   Onvacation   2018 May 29, 2:58pm  

Onvacation says
jazz_music says

The discussion of significant figures

Is very significant when your measuring hundredths of one degree.


jazz_music says
That is exactly false

Can you say why sig figs are not significant?
127   curious2   2018 May 29, 4:45pm  

LeonDurham says
Let's agree that obviously one needs to calculate the mean...


OK.

LeonDurham says
The point is that sig figs are less important than sample size in that calculation.


No, you are conflating two discrete calculations. You don't get to the roof of the house until after you have built the foundation. You don't get to standard deviations, margins of error, and statistical signficance, all of which depend on sample size, until you have the underlying data.

In addition to skipping the basic math involved in measuring and averaging, you ignore also the problem of lacking any realistic plan to manage the climate. It reminds me of a comment by Scott Adams:

Anyway, to me it seems brutally wrong to call skeptics on climate science “anti-science” when all they want is for science to make its case in a way that doesn’t look exactly like a financial scam.

AGW resembles a scam because it says basically that "the sky is falling and so you must pay hundreds of billion$" without actually proving the premise and without providing any realistic plan to solve the alleged problem. It's a series of scare tactics and emotional appeals to partisan identity ("Resist Trump" by opposing whatever he says, even if he says the sun is shining on a sunny day). That isn't math, and it isn't science, and it isn't engineering. It's a huge amount of money already, all these conferences and global travel (note endless CO2 output from global travel by AGW alarmists claiming everyone must reduce CO2 output). In that sense it's already doing something, i.e. transferring $ (which seems to be the point) and allowing some people to feel virtuous about paying $ or recycling their garbage, but it has neither a realistic prospect of significantly affecting the climate nor a realistic plan to do so. Democrats' hysteria about AGW resembles also the Republican claims about WMD in Iraq: fix what data exist around the policy you prefer, induce panic, and hope nobody notices the elisions and inadequate planning until after the check has cleared.

LeonDurham says
curious2 says
Yes, you are, by asking me endless questions that you should see answered in your own comments while refusing to answer the only question that matters.


Wow--did you just pull a "I know you are, but what am I" there? Well done. Your question presumes facts not in evidence which is what I pointed out in my question to you.


You persist in asking me silly questions while ignoring the question that matters. Your comments are thus trolling, so I am going to stop feeding you. Have a nice day.
128   LeonDurham   2018 May 30, 5:45am  

curious2 says
No, you are conflating two discrete calculations. You don't get to the roof of the house until after you have built the foundation. You don't get to standard deviations, margins of error, and statistical signficance, all of which depend on sample size, until you have the underlying data.


Obviously. Why do you persist in pretending I don't understand this?

curious2 says

AGW resembles a scam because it says basically that "the sky is falling and so you must pay hundreds of billion$" without actually proving the premise and without providing any realistic plan to solve the alleged problem. It's a series of scare tactics and emotional appeals to partisan identity ("Resist Trump" by opposing whatever he says, even if he says the sun is shining on a sunny day). That isn't math, and it isn't science, and it isn't engineering. It's a huge amount of money already, all these conferences and global travel (note endless CO2 output from global travel by AGW alarmists claiming everyone must reduce CO2 output). In that sense it's already doing something, i.e. transferring $ (which seems to be the point) and allowing some people to feel virtuous about paying $ or recycling their garbage, but it has neither a realistic prospect of signif...


And thus, my question to you. You presume that it's a fact that limiting CO2 emissions would not impact the problem. I find that argument less than compelling, especially when you consider the results of a similar exercise in limiting Freon.

Your condescending attitude and insults are obviously hiding the truth that your argument is weak. If you had a stronger argument, you'd be willing to discuss it like an adult.


curious2 says
You persist in asking me silly questions while ignoring the question that matters. Your comments are thus trolling, so I am going to stop feeding you. Have a nice day.


lol--as expected. Run away little man.
129   Onvacation   2018 May 30, 7:17am  

LeonDurham says
The point is that sig figs are less important than sample size in that calculation.

No. The point is that worldwide average temperature was not measurable before satellites. And even with satellites the idea of measuring worldwide average temperature down to the 4/100ths of one degree that 2016 was measured to be hotter than 2015 is ridiculous, in my opinion.
Now that the temperature is going down the alarmists are scrambling to make excuses and save the narrative, "co2 bad".
130   LeonDurham   2018 May 30, 7:23am  

Onvacation says
Now that the temperature is going down the alarmists are scrambling to make excuses and save the narrative, "co2 bad".


Nobody is making excuses because global warming scientists are smart enough to understand how trends work and what noise is.

Onvacation says
No. The point is that worldwide average temperature was not measurable before satellites. And even with satellites the idea of measuring worldwide average temperature down to the 4/100ths of one degree that 2016 was measured to be hotter than 2015 is ridiculous, in my opinion.


Fine--the trends still exist and can be measured in multiple ways. Ice, sea level, global temps, bird migration patterns, etc. They all say the same thing. Earth is getting hotter.
131   Onvacation   2018 May 30, 7:27am  

LeonDurham says
Your condescending attitude and insults are obviously hiding the truth that your argument is weak.

LeonDurham says
. Run away little man.

I've noticed again and again, whenever facts get in the way of their narrative, the alarmists go for the personal attack.
132   LeonDurham   2018 May 30, 7:36am  

Onvacation says

I've noticed again and again, whenever facts get in the way of their narrative, the alarmists go for the personal attack.


Is curious an alarmist? I was just giving him back what he started.
133   Onvacation   2018 May 30, 7:00pm  

LeonDurham says
Earth is getting hotter.

Not really.
2 degrees over a century does not a heatwave make. Propaganda can only trump truth for so long before the lies become blatantly obvious.
134   Onvacation   2018 May 30, 7:12pm  

RafiMaas says
Really? I'm guessing you are not a scientist?

Not iwog.
135   LeonDurham   2018 May 31, 4:56am  

Onvacation says
Not really.
2 degrees over a century does not a heatwave make. Propaganda can only trump truth for so long before the lies become blatantly obvious.


So, you do admit it's getting hotter then?
136   Onvacation   2018 May 31, 6:09am  

RafiMaas says
Tell me, in what other century did the earth's temperature change by 2 degrees?

The roman warming, the medieval warm period, the little ice age, the dust bowl the hockey stick (never happened). The climate has been much more variable than the alarmists data manipulations would lead you to BELIEVE!
137   Onvacation   2018 May 31, 6:13am  

jazz_music says

This is the amazing knowledge of one who had a beverage.

And the co2 fizzed out blanketing the earth with an impenetrable layer that blocked ALL of the heat from returning to the sun.
138   Onvacation   2018 May 31, 6:18am  

LeonDurham says

So, you do admit it's getting hotter then?

Every summer! At least most summers. If the solar scientists are right we may lose a couple of degrees the next few years.
139   LeonDurham   2018 May 31, 6:29am  

Onvacation says
The roman warming, the medieval warm period, the little ice age, the dust bowl the hockey stick (never happened). The climate has been much more variable than the alarmists data manipulations would lead you to BELIEVE!


This is your problem. You try to argue everything so you end up arguing nothing.

According to you:
1. Temperature records are unreliable.
2. Temperatures aren't rising.
3. Man is not the cause of temperature rising.
4. Earth's temperature fluctuations are normal. It is self correcting.
5. CO2 isn't causing temperatures to rise.
140   Onvacation   2018 May 31, 7:14am  

LeonDurham says
1. Temperature records are unreliable.
2. Temperatures aren't rising.
3. Man is not the cause of temperature rising.
4. Earth's temperature fluctuations are normal. It is self correcting.
5. CO2 isn't causing temperatures to rise.

You got 4 and 5 correct.
What idiot ever said man does not effect his environment? It's the co2 thing that is fraudulent.
141   LeonDurham   2018 May 31, 1:29pm  

Onvacation says
What idiot ever said man does not effect his environment? It's the co2 thing that is fraudulent.


A guy named Onvocation I believe.
142   Onvacation   2018 Jun 1, 6:24pm  

LeonDurham says
Onvocation

Onvacation

"Too much of science — especially climate science — is done with nods and winks when funding is handed out, because that funding is often tied to politically expedient conclusions. Science used to be defined as a systematic study of the physical and natural world. It was a search for truth, accomplished with observation and testing. Facts were king; and consensus meant nothing. We have to get back to that.
https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/28349-does-noaa-alter-temperature-data-to-fit-global-warming-agenda"

CAGW will go down among the biggest frauds in scientific history.
143   Malcolm   2018 Jun 1, 10:14pm  

It is only fair to start giving Donald Trump credit for global cooling.
144   Onvacation   2018 Jun 2, 7:11pm  

Malcolm says
It is only fair to start giving Donald Trump credit for global cooling.

He will definitely get credit when it is discovered that Facebook, amazon, netflix, and google are NOT worth more than the gdp of Australia and New Zealand.
145   Onvacation   2018 Jun 2, 7:15pm  

jazz_music says
97% of scientists

Why do only 97% of global warming climate change scientists believe in co2 caused CAGW?
How do the other 3% feed their children?
146   marcus   2018 Jun 2, 9:00pm  

Onvacation says
jazz_music says

The discussion of significant figures

Is very significant when your measuring hundredths of one degree.


Checking in with this thread to see some people don't get it still.

Here's another simple example. It's often cited that moms have 2.4 children on average. Obviously everyone involved in the survey or census gave an answer accurate to one significant figure. Do you think that the only reason the 2.4 number is valid is that every parent gave the answer in the form 3.0 children, 1.0 children (rather than 3 chidren, 1 child)? Yes, this is different, becasue it's not also about the fact that over the long hall (in a large sample) when temperature is rounded to the nearest tenth, it's just as likely rounded up as down. If not, then for year to year differences purposes the bias (say e.g. bias toward rounding up) is removed, i.e from year to year the values are just as likely to be rounded up as down. Whoever brought up sigfigs is someone that totally misunderstands the point.
147   marcus   2018 Jun 2, 9:08pm  

Onvacation says
CAGW will go down among the biggest frauds in scientific history.


This gets to what this is really about.

There's one type of person that cares about the future (after they're gone), and understands risk, and thinks that an 80% chance or even a 20% chance that ACC is real and that political pressure to change energy sources sooner rather than later can make a difference in the future (even financially) of mankind, then it's worth it.

Then there's another kind of person, who thinks that even if the chance that ACC is wrong is say 10%, it's worth it to claim it's false now, so that if that turns out they're right, they'll have bragging rights that they called it. IF they're wrong, then that sucks either way.

We're all gamblers to some degree, but that type of person is interested in a different kind of "win" than I am. And they're playing the long shot with a huge downside. OR maybe not, since the worst of it won't affect them personally.
148   curious2   2018 Jun 2, 11:00pm  

Onvacation says
CAGW will go down among the biggest frauds in scientific history.


Onvacation, please let me help you with something. I think you are trying to refer to anthropogenic global warming (AGW), but that abbreviation has become archaic now that advocates have switched from "warming" to "climate change." In contrast, CAGW = Citizens Against Government Waste. The CAGW website says:

"One year ago, on June 1, President Trump announced that the U.S. would be withdrawing from the 2015 Paris Climate Treaty, or the Paris Accord. The significance of this wise and correct decision still rings true today.

President Trump’s action removed the U.S. from an unrealistic goal of reducing carbon emissions that would have cost our nation billions of dollars, harmed our economy, a loss of millions of jobs, and have done very little to reduce the earth's temperature, its supposed main purpose. His decision saved our country from contributing $100 billion per year until 2020 for the U.N. Green Climate Fund, a gigantic wealth transfer program to developing countries.
"

marcus, please let me try to help you as well, although your insistence on wilful ignorance does make that difficult.

marcus says
over the long hall....


there is a long ceiling.

marcus says
some people don't get it still.

Here's another simple example. It's often cited that moms have 2.4 children on average.


Your example of counting children is, again, inapposite, for the reason that you ignored above. It comes down to the difference between counting and measuring. Counts can be exact, as integers can, but measurements cannot. "Exact numbers...are either defined numbers or result of a count. Exact numbers cannot be simplified and have an infinite number of significant figures. Measured numbers have a limited number of significant figures." When you say that "some people don't get it," you appear to be either projecting or demonstrating partial self-awareness.

marcus says
Whoever brought up sigfigs is someone that totally misunderstands the point.


Whoever poses as a math teacher disproves that pose by failing to understand the difference between counting and measuring when considering significant figures.

marcus says
that type of person is interested in a different kind of "win" than I am.


First, there are more "types" of people than you listed. Second, your position (transfer hundreds of billion$ from the scientifically advanced world to backwards kleptocracies and the Clinton Foundation) does not enable you to "win" in any way other than emotionally feeling (and signaling) virtue. Regardless of the probabilities involved in measuring and predicting climate change, your preferred policy has no chance of actually managing the climate. You have not proposed a solution, but rather have merely endorsed a corrupt scam to transfer a lot of money so that you can feel better.

I did try to explain that to LeonDurham (AKA joeyjoejoejr, AKA tatupu70, AKA probably more aliases that I've lost track of), but received only strawmen, lies, and ad hominem taunts in reply. There are no winners in that context, and the one who loses least is the one who walks away first, thus wasting the least amount of time.
149   Onvacation   2018 Jun 2, 11:00pm  

marcus says
values are just as likely to be rounded up as down.

No. Old values were adjusted down and newer temperatures adjusted up to match the narrative.
150   Onvacation   2018 Jun 2, 11:05pm  

marcus says
Whoever brought up sigfigs is someone that totally misunderstands the point.

That was leondurham.
Manipulated fictitious numbers can be as accurate as you want them to be. 97% for example.
151   Onvacation   2018 Jun 2, 11:09pm  

marcus says

There's one type of person that cares about the future

And they're really concerned that their carbon credits will be worthless if the scam is exposed.
152   Onvacation   2018 Jun 2, 11:13pm  

marcus says
the worst of it won't affect them personally.

I thought the temperature was going to hockey stick, Manhattan and Florida were supposed to be underwater, and wetbulb deaths were supposed to be common by now.

When will the consequences of CAGW start?
153   Onvacation   2018 Jun 2, 11:16pm  

curious2 says
Onvacation, please let me help you with something. I think you are trying to refer to anthropogenic global warming (AGW), but that abbreviation has become archaic now that advocates have switched from "warming" to "climate change." In contrast, CAGW = Citizens Against Government Waste. The CAGW website says:


Thank you. Maybe I should refer to it as "The Fraud".
154   marcus   2018 Jun 3, 1:10am  

Onvacation says
I thought the temperature was going to hockey stick, Manhattan and Florida were supposed to be underwater, and wetbulb deaths were supposed to be common by now.


No, that was never the mainstream belief. Iwog got a little extreme , but only talking about if the trend continued, it was a speculative possibility he mentioned, based on the bizzarre trends in the arctic in 2015/2016.(NOTE: It's the coming down from that dramatic upspike that you like to call a dwontrend).

THe graph I posted in another thread actually still looks like a hockey stick, but not one that unfolds in months. I hope it's not.

http://patrick.net/post/1316363?0#comment-1509438
155   marcus   2018 Jun 3, 1:19am  

YOu're arguments are such trolls that I can't help but wonder whether the Koch brothers pay you for such nonsense. Or perhaps we have the honor of having an actual Koch brother on this forum (unlikely) >

Onvacation says
No. Old values were adjusted down and newer temperatures adjusted up to match the narrative.


We're not even in the same argument. All along I've been responding to your claim that citing average annual global temperatures down to hundredths of a degree doesn't make sense. As for adjustments and process, it is true that I expect and trust most of the super majority of scientists weighing in to be far more skeptical about data than you or I ever will be THAT IS WITHOUT BIAS, or at least with minimal bias.
156   LeonDurham   2018 Jun 3, 6:58am  

Onvacation says

That was leondurham.
Manipulated fictitious numbers can be as accurate as you want them to be. 97% for example.


No, it was curious. I was pointing out how he completely misunderstands how to interpret the data.
157   LeonDurham   2018 Jun 3, 7:03am  

curious2 says
Onvacation, please let me help you with something. I think you are trying to refer to anthropogenic global warming (AGW), but that abbreviation has become archaic now that advocates have switched from "warming" to "climate change


And, fyi, the scientific community is more appropriately referring to it as climate change because the effects are more than just higher temps.

But there's no doubt that temps are rising. It can be seen in so many different measurements: temperature readings, ice caps, bird migration patterns, sea levels, snow pack melting data, etc.
158   Onvacation   2018 Jun 3, 7:34am  

marcus says
 

Onvacation says
I thought the temperature was going to hockey stick, Manhattan and Florida were supposed to be underwater, and wetbulb deaths were supposed to be common by now.


No, that was never the mainstream belief.

If catastrophe is not the alarmist belief what is?
159   Onvacation   2018 Jun 3, 7:36am  

marcus says
that dramatic upspike that you like to call a dwontrend)

What? And I am not talking about the typo.
160   Onvacation   2018 Jun 3, 7:38am  

marcus says
THe graph I posted in another thread actually still looks like a hockey stick, but not one that unfolds in months. I hope it's not.

So, is the hockey stick gonna happen or not? When?
Skeptics want to know.

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