Re: OT: interesting global warming quote found elsewhwere

On Aug 8, 2:05 pm, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelati...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:
 krw <k...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You fell into the semantic trap, calling AGW a "theory".  It is in
the religious/lay sense, but certainly not in the scientific sense.

Anthropogenic global warming is certainly a hypothesis - as is every
other scientific theory. It is supported by enough scientific evidence
- which Eeyore lacks the background knowledge to understand - to be
referred to as a theory.

The evidence for recent global warming is the temperature measurments
- the earth as a whole has heated up by  0.74 +/-0.2 degrees Celcius
in the last hundred years

0.74 !

Loehle shows about half that IIRC. And mainly as recovery from the LIA.

So what? For one thing, his error bars are going to be bigger than
+/-0.19C, and for another the Little Ice Age seems to have been a
Northern Hemisphere and largely a Northern Atlantic event, and not all
that excitng in the context of global warming and cooling.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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