Comments on: How many months in a row has global temperature been above average?

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:08:00 +0000

The average Paul is using here is the climate average of recent years while records were kept. But if you want back 5,000 years the only other warm period is the Midlevel Warm Period which is not as warm as it is now, so that wouldn’t pertain. You would need to go back 120-something thousand years to get to the last interglacial. At this point I’m not sure about all of the last three decades and we can’t make year to year comparisons, but the recent post fossil fuel burning years are as a group warmer than that period of time.

At this point you’d have to go back to the Pliocene to get a chunk of years from which to compute an average that is warmer than the average of the last few decades.

The Pliocene. Look it up, wise guy.

By: R James

R James — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 11:47:34 +0000

What is the average based on? 150 years? 2,000 years? 500,000 years? On a climate scale, I suggest anything less than 5,000 years wouldn’t mean much. Based on this, we’re pretty normal.

By: Neil Craig

Neil Craig — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:08:18 +0000

By my estimate 5,000 bc was about 84,156 months ago, which rather trumps 342 (even assuming the warmist figure was in some way truthful which has not been proven).

By: j a higginbotham

j a higginbotham — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 05:15:20 +0000

Only if you spend your life traveling all over the world; even then, this is not likely.
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So if you are 28 years old or younger, you’ve never experienced a cooler than average month. If you live on Earth.

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 04:42:09 +0000

Greg made a boo-boo in his arithmetic. This proves that the earth is cooling, that Obama is a Muslim and that vaccines cause autism.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 01:33:22 +0000

I was doing it base 20, obviously !

By: Sou

Sou — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 00:18:07 +0000

Yeah, Greg – what Dave said 🙂

I did some sums a while back but using annual averages rather than monthly.

Sixty per cent of people alive today have never ever experienced a year colder than the twentieth century average.

Almost half the people alive today haven’t experienced a year colder than the 1961-90 average.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 22 Sep 2013 23:00:41 +0000

You need to double-check your math. Try 28 years.