You are not big on metaphor, are you? They guy in the back seat does have a brake pedal, but the braking is a cumulative effect of everybody in the car. The driver has more powerful controls.Barry Sears wrote: ↑April 30th, 2018, 7:31 am If you are sitting in the back seat, applying the brake is not an option. If your attempts to resolve the inevitable outcome by communication with the driver of the motor vehicle wasn't successful, then taking action to jump would be necessary.
What is the point of posting this graph? It shows 40 years of data for the difference between temperature measured on the surface vs. that measured from satellite, the difference between two different thermometers measuring the same thing. For the most part, they agree, but sometimes differ by as much as half a degree. How is this relevant to the discussion?
Here is one from the same site I found that actually plots over time the average temperature and also CO2 levels.
http://climate4you.com/images/AllCompar ... AndCO2.gif
I could not paste the image itself since it is 60% wider than the forum likes, and compressing it renders it pretty unreadable as you seem to have discovered. Thanks for the url to it.
The graph I linked goes back only 60 years. I found others on the site that predate the industrial revolution, and show essentially a flat slope ending around 1910. One of them is this, which plots temperature and also length of day. Why those two belong in the same image seems inexplicable, but we've been discussing both.
http://climate4you.com/images/LOD%20and ... ngMean.gif
Temperature has no average slope until 1910, then about a degree per century until recently when the slope starts snowballing to the current rates.
The length of day plot shows less than 86400 seconds prior to 1890, and greater than that since then, although the current day length has dropped to nearly the standard time, having peaked at around 1905. I'm just impressed that they have measurements of it down to the millisecond as far back as 1850.
Mind you, it is measured by year, so a matter of seconds, not milliseconds. And a year on Earth is not one orbit like it is defined for the other planets.
It is a calendar year, measured from the onset of spring to the next spring. One orbit is about 20 minutes longer than a calendar year. Sorry. I digress....