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Saturday, February 2, 2013

25% of 1.1 Degree Over The Past 100 Years -- Solar Flares

Link here to Fox News.
An estimate from NASA said that solar variations caused 25 percent of the 1.1 degree Fahrenheit warming that has been observed over the past century.
So, now we can add 75 percent to the equation:
75% of 5% of 3% of 3% of 1.1 degree F -->  whatever.
Two story lines here:
  • a reminder that we are talking about 1.1 degree F over ONE HUNDRED YEARS; and, 
  • Fox News is slipping. The global temperature is always reported in Celsius. A Celsius degree is 1.8 Fahrenheit degrees (in other words, the degree markings are farther apart on a Celsius thermometer. So a 1.1 degree F = a 0.6 Celsius degree. So, assuming I did the math correctly, we are talking about a 0.6 Celsius degree change over ONE HUNDRED YEARS
But again, the two big questions are never answered:
  • what is the "correct" temperature for the earth? and,
  • who sets the thermostat?
Many have said they want to re-set the thermostat, but no one has said what they want to set the thermostat to.

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