Why Global temperatures unchanged is it God in His mercy ?

[Greatcloud]

What other then God and His love for all mankind is the reason the mean temperature is never spiking up beyond the 2000 level. Why does it always spike downward almost to zero,this is open for debate to all please don't consider this question too simple. Thank You.

 

[MerlinJ]

You think we're here because the universe was made for us.

I think we are the universe, quite literally, finding a way to ask silly questions on internet forums.

 

[MikeCarra]

What other then God and His love for all mankind is the reason the mean temperature is never spiking up beyond the 2000 level. Why does it always spike downward almost to zero,this is open for debate to all please don't consider this question too simple. Thank You.

God in his mercy created noise in data sets. God in his mercy also created STATISTICS to give man the power to understand noisy data sets.

God in his mercy also created complex systems that can make it seem like nothing is changing when many other things are changing.

Because God in his mercy also created the FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS which says that the energy we KNOW is coming into the system can't just simply disappear. It is going somewhere. And God in his mercy gave us eyes to see and instruments to measure and guess where that energy is going? The ocean.

God is truly great in providing us with tools to keep us free of the blindness of ignorance.

Unless we REALLY want to be ignorant, we won't be able to hide from our actions.

Selah!

 

[Strathos]

2000 level? Are you suggesting the temperature should be 2000 degrees? (C, F, or K, it doesn't matter, any would be ridiculous). Why would you predict such a thing?

 

[Greatcloud]

No I was refering to the year 2000. Thank you.

 

[cerad]

And can you explain what "Why does it always spike downward almost to zero" is supposed to mean?

 

[[serious]]

What other then God and His love for all mankind is the reason the mean temperature is never spiking up beyond the 2000 level. Why does it always spike downward almost to zero,this is open for debate to all please don't consider this question too simple. Thank You.

You are basically saying, "why is every year not a new record?" The answer to which is because that isn't how the real world works.

Now, you might notice that we are in a flat part right now. While I'm sure you are looking at that and thinking, "Hey! Global warming just stopped forever!!!" the truth is it's an expected short term thing due to ocean cycles. I posted about it years ago before we saw the trend starting. How did I know it was going to happen? Because we saw the ocean cycles changing and knew what it meant:

a periodic cooling cycle caused by changes in ocean currents may give balance global warming for the next 10 years. the cooling cycle is temporary and the period after that will see even more rapid warming putting the overall warming trend back on schedule.

BBC News

[waits for "science makes accurate predictions and thus it must be wrong!"]

 

[Damian79]

Why do people always post charts of 1880+ graphs?

 

[Mainframes]

Why do people always post charts of 1880+ graphs?

That would be looking a long term trends in climate since accurate record keeping began.....

 

[Damian79]

That would be looking a long term trends in climate since accurate record keeping began.....

Tree ring data shows temps for over 2 millenia if not more.

 

[RickG]

Tree ring data shows temps for over 2 millenia if not more.

Nothing more than a misrepresented graph from the well documented source of the Daily Mail.

 

[RickG]

What other then God and His love for all mankind is the reason the mean temperature is never spiking up beyond the 2000 level. Why does it always spike downward almost to zero,this is open for debate to all please don't consider this question too simple. Thank You.

Keep in mind that that "climate" is describe as a 30 year trend, not a year to year trend or decade to decade trend. The trend is still very very much up.

BTW, did you know that the global average temperature (GAT) for August was an "all time August" high?

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata_v3/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt

 

[Damian79]

What about this then from wikipedia?

EDIT: Serious posted the smaller one.

 

[RickG]

Why do people always post charts of 1880+ graphs?

1880 is the year in which official global land/sea temperatures begin being recorded on a regular basis, as opposed to prior sparse records and proxy's.

 

[RickG]

What about this then from wikipedia?

Best I can tell its from wikimedia, not wikipedia and it contains no context as to what it is describing from what source.

Two things.

First, please resource the graphic and see if there is not a smaller version.

Second, please provide a link to the site where the picture is sourced so we all may review the description and context in which the picture is presented.

 

[[serious]]

Tree ring data shows temps for over 2 millenia if not more.

Looks like you got that chart from daily mail. Let's try one from NOAA:

 

[[serious]]

What about this then from wikipedia?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/Yamal50.gif

Better! Sure, it's just tree ring data at the exclusion of other sources and only covers the Yamal Peninsula, but it's actual data. It does let us say that the Yamal peninsula is warmer than it has been in the past 7000 years. That alone doesn't tell us much, but it's a data point that can be combined with others.

For those interested, here's the actual link to the info on the file from wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendroclimatology#mediaviewer/File:Yamal50.gif
This link provides alternate sizes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yamal50.gif
such as this one:

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