The Warmest Decade on Record

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Richard Lindzen, professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on why it isn't a big deal that this has been the warmest decade on record.

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[eesgrampa1]

haha love it. the ? is 2001 - 2009 is the warmest decade on record and the MIT prof does not talk about this past decade but 1970 thru 1998. the question was about 2001-09. so he does not answer the question at all. he also states we are talking only about tenths of a degree. true, but during the last ice age the earth was only 5 degrees cooler. the 2001-2009 decade saw the earth temp rise almost .4 degrees. it does not take an MIT prof to see how quickly the earths temp is rising.

[GarfoyleZanderfield]

@ostralopithicus

Between 1990 and 2011 something on the order of about 75% of temperature stations have stopped reporting their surface readings, so when a a large data set is diminished to about 1/4 it's previous sample size, one naturally might ask questions about this.

[ostralopithicus]

Has not been the warmest decade on record. Two sets of satellite data over the past decade show no warming. It is the land based data, that has been manipulated, that they are using to make such claims. It is alarmism meant to frighten people into giving governments more money.

[LordVigeous666999]

see thats the trick though, they aren't talking about the ice cores, they are talking about the Global Thermometer Record, which only goes back 130 years

And seeing as the ice cores show at least 300+ years of warming, of course over the last 130, we're going to be at the highest point

Just like in circa 1800, they were at the highest point up to that point

They are experts at lying with statistics

[MountThor]

Actually the Vostok Ice Core Data does in fact show WARMER temperatures, so to claim that it's the hottest temperatures on record is false. Climate Scientists should know better.

[MountThor]

Putting it in perspective: 1/10ths of a degree. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.