[ExI] A Nobel laureate and climate change

[Tim Halterman]

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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