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David W says:
The more the climate scientists talk up the heat given the past few winters, the more they totally shred their credibility with the public who have to wear the consequences of a government unprepared for these severe cold snaps.
Its tough to believe in global warming when your constantly freezing your ass off.
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Ian W says:
HR says:
December 20, 2010 at 3:17 am
So any lags in global temperature associated with this?
Because where ever you think 2010 global temp is going to finish its going to take a stretch to describe it as cool no matter how many personnel reports of it being cold outside. Certainly the UAH satellite data doesnt seem to have it cool.
Cool and hot are measures of temperature.
Temperature does not equal heat content
A dry airmass (see http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/natl/flash-wv.html ) holds far less heat than a humid airmass. So all that dry air you can see near the tropics is really hot but holds far less heat than the humid airmass.
Everyone is using the incorrect metric.
After all the green house gas theory is that heat is trapped in the atmosphere. The amount of temperature rise in air depends on its enthalpy which is driven largely by its water vapor content.
So scientists should stop measuring temperature and doing temperature comparisons ! They are meaningless.