A beautiful press release from NASA just appeared which concisely and directly summarizes the analysis of global temperature since 1880 using three data sources. Find the article here: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/temp-analysis-2009.html. I particularly like that they make a clear distinction between short-term local effects (El Nino, La Nina), short-term cyclic effects (solar irradiance), and long term global trends (temperature increases). It’s those short-term local or cyclic effects that most global climate change deniers like to use to cheat the public out of an understanding of the long-term effects. The NASA article quickly makes the distinction and nicely illustrates how those effects are accounted for.
AUTHOR
You may also like
Many people think that alternative medicine – what I call “sham medicine” – is the positive opposite of science-based medicine. Peddlers of […]
You may or may not like Mitt Romney. You may or may not like Barack Obama. But these past two weeks, despite […]
Today is Dec. 10 (at least, in the United States) – the day the Nobel Prizes are awarded (“http://nobelprize.org/”:http://nobelprize.org/). This day marks […]
Ask and ye shall receive. As I got in the shower this morning, NPR ran an interview with NOAA meteorologist Martin Hoerling […]