When you derive a trend line from the wild swings of Earth's average temperature from year to year, the result is much different than the recent NASA claim 2014 was two hundredths of a degree C. warmer than the prior peak in 2010.
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The "warmest" year headline NASA published to please their boss, Obama, required showing the average temperature in hundredths of a degree … while simultaneously claiming the accuracy was +/- one tenth of a degree C.
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Using hundredths of a degree for the average temperature shows Mr. NASA has a sense of humor -- and even funnier is he also said there was only a 38% probability 2014 was REALLY the warmest year on record, yet the media implied 100%.
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I'm disappointed the trend lines for every average temperature measurement methodology shows there's been a 12 to 18-year “pause” (IPCC term) of the global warming in progress since the last ice age peaked 18,000 years ago.
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I had been enjoying the extra CO2 in the air because it is greening our planet, and the slight warming, whether from CO2 or not, was nice too.
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The increase of CO2 is still happening, so that’s good news for green plants and the people and animals who eat them, but … I WANT THE GLOBAL WARMING TREND TO RETURN !
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For one reason, it’s expensive to buy a second home down south in Florida for the winters, and I can’t afford one.
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Global warming (and never mind that my water meter froze and cracked inside my garage during February 2014, costing me $300) had given me hope a Florida winter home wouldn’t be necessary as my body aged, and various body parts could no longer tolerate the cold.
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I blame this global warming “pause” entirely on Al Gore.
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When he was out there in the public all the time, busy inventing the internet, doing slide shows, making movies, and winning the Nobel Prize, the average temperature was rising.
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But now that Al Gore is fat, rich, and quiet, the climate has stopped warming.
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This is obviously scientific proof large emissions of Al Gore’s hot air had been the primary cause of global warming in the 1990s.
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So I’m NOT happy about the new, nearly silent Al Gore since he lost the 2000 Presidential election.
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When I walk outside in the cold weather, and my knees hurt … well … I'm a climate change victim -- specifically a victim of the “pause” in global warming -- and I deserve some kind of financial compensation for my knee pain and suffering.
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This month I told my knees they should have been very happy throughout 2014, because it was the hottest year ever for them, but they don’t agree.
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They told me it was cold in Michigan in 2014 -- the surrounding Great Lakes set three cold weather records (greatest ice extent (area) on record in early 2014, longest ice duration on record in early 2014, and earliest ice formation on record in late 2014).
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In response to me pointing out that NASA said 2014 was the warmest year ever, and that's more important than the fact the Great Lakes had an unusually cold year, and our Detroit metropolitan area set a new record for snowfall in the winter of 2013 / 2014, my knees have stopped talking to me.
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Any "scientist" who studies temperature anomaly charts showing:
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(1) Random temperature variations,
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(2) Of very rough measurements of Earth's average temperature,
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(3) Over very short periods of time (only 134 years of Earth's 4.5 billion year history),
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(4) In tenths of a degree C.,
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(5) And says the average temperature has increased from 56.5 to 58 degrees F. from 1880 to 2014, without mentioning 1800s thermometers were +/- one degree F. accuracy,
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(6) And claims those small random variations are definitive PROOF, with 105% confidence, that 'life on Earth will end as we know it' from climate change,
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(7) … must have a good sense of humor!
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And that’s why in 2015 I'll try to inject some humor into the tedious climate debate over what caused the one to one and a half degrees of warming from 1880 through 2014 … which no one would have even noticed if not for hysterical left-wing extremists bellowing loudly every year, for 45 consecutive years so far, that a climate catastrophe is on the way … one of these years … maybe this year … or maybe in 2016 … or maybe on January 25, 2021 at 7:32 am.
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It now seems that Al Gore's projections back in 2007 might have been slightly wrong when he claimed all the Arctic ice would be melted as soon as 2014, and Antarctic ice would be melting so fast, and raising the sea level so much, that people in Manhattan would be taking gondolas to get to their office buildings (rowboats for the riff raff) … and of course wise Al had already purchased the first license to operate a gondola rental shop at Grand Central Station.
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Maybe Al Gore was actually predicting the ice would be melting on Mars, and he was misunderstood -- the ice at Earth's poles sure didn't melt on this planet:
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(1) Northern Hemisphere (Arctic) sea ice extent (square miles with 15% or more ice coverage) in December 2014 was the most ice in a decade, reversing a long-term decline, and certainly very far from completely melted.
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(2) Southern Hemisphere (Antarctic) sea ice extent (square miles with 15% or more ice coverage) in December 2014 above far above the 1981 to 2010 December average -- that's cooling, not warming.
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So exactly what was it we were supposed to be in a panic about for the past 45 years?
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A tiny +1.5 degree F. change of Earth's average temperature in the 134 years from 1880 to 2014, which followed many centuries of unusually cool weather per climate proxy studies, with starting point measurements in the late 1800s using thermometers that consistently read low?
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And that +1.5 degrees should cause a world-wide panic … and harsh demands from environmental extremists to turn back the industrial age, and start getting around with horses again?
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And gondolas.