The number one dodge and time waster in our global warming public awareness dialogue is the nonstop obsessing over temperatures, taking them, processing them, matching models. Every new study is treated as though this were some kind of ball game with armchair quarterbacks right and left.
Thing is, those temperature numbers are useless information if you don't first grasp the fact of greenhouse gases and how they control our planet's insulation against frigid space. We know this added heat is being absorbed into our global climate system, there's no where else for it to go undetected.
The physics means that everything under that atmosphere will absorb some of that added warmth. Period!
Measuring those varied temperatures moving through the global system 100% is impossible, but why would that change the physics of what's going on?
Besides, we do have overwhelming thermometer-independent evidence.
27 -- The evidence for climate change WITHOUT computer models or the IPCC
potholer54 | Published on May 9, 2013 | 16:02 min
What's hideous is all the people who glibly dismiss the geophysics of greenhouse gases which is clearly known to a high degree of certitude. And instead pretend that human's ability to measure the actual heat moving through our global heat and moisture distribution engine is the be all and end all of what they need to know.
With that bit of venting, allow me to introduce you to an excellent primer on how well scientists understand the physics of our atmosphere. By way of a map to Dr. David Archer's excellent college level course, which is freely available at YouTube. This I follow with information about "seepage" from the man who coined the term, Dr. Lewandowsky. Finishing with a couple links to Admiral David Titley, and climatologist Gavin Schmidt who explain a bit more about temperatures and climate models.
Dr. David Archer
Global Warming
Understanding the Forecast
Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast is a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of global warming. Written in an accessible way, and assuming no specialist prior knowledge, this book examines the processes that control climate change and climate stability, from the distant past to the distant future.
