[ExI] A Nobel laureate and climate change

[Adrian Tymes]

Ah, I stand corrected as to their claim.  Thanks.

2011/9/15 Tim Halterman <timhalterman at gmail.com>

> APS provided some additional commentary on this policy in mid 2010.  You
> can read the full policy and the additional commentary here:
> http://www.aps.org/policy/statements/07_1.cfm
>
> They source the incontrovertible proof (their words not mine) from:
> http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html
> -Tim
> 2011/9/15 Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com>
>
>> Easily refuted:
>>
>>  *
>>>
>>> how can you measure the average temperature of the whole earth for a
>>> whole year?
>>> *
>>
>>
>> It's only the Earth's surface, not the core.  As to how: distribute a lot
>> of temperature
>> sensors over the Earth (including but not limited to IR cameras on a bunch
>> of satellites,
>> whose orbits allow them to collectively see the entire surface of the
>> Earth), and monitor
>> them for a year.  Really, a trivial exercise in experiment design.
>>
>>  *
>>>
>>> the temperature has changed from ~288.0 to ~288.8 degree Kelvin in about
>>> 150 years
>>> *
>>
>>
>>  He says that is "the claim" - it's not.  The claim is over a much shorter
>> timespan than
>> that.
>>
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