Thanks Richard, very much for your thoughtful reply (#25245).
There's lot's to chew on, and I'm still gnawing away.
Meanwhile, if I may interject:
G'day TheFallibleFriend,
....or even that there is any type of global warming.
All of this is based on analysis of studies, data etc. If you have any specific data or a study that seems to contradict my comments please feel free to quote them or provide appropriate references.
Beltrami, H., J. E. Smerdon, H. N. Pollack, and S. Huang (2002), Continental heat gain in the global climate system, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(8), 1167, doi:10.1029/2001GL014310.
"Beltrami et al. [2002] used temperature profile data from boreholes to make this estimate. They estimate that Earth's continents warmed by 0.9 × 10^22 J during the past 50 years. This value is of the same order as the warming of the Earth's atmosphere during this period...."
"These fluxes indicate that 30% of the heat gained by the ground in the last five centuries was deposited during the last fifty years, and over half of the five-century heat gain occurred during the 20th century."
This is a definite "Hockey Stick" isn't it?
