Despite being labelled a troll (for doing nothing than disagreeing with a particular person), I would like to continue posting here - simply because I think it's important to have open discussion on this topic.
Perhaps a repsectful, open discussion can now happen.
I've often wondered how reasonable global average temps are. Does anybody here have background on how they are calculated?
From the article
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070315101129.htmResearchers Question Validity Of A 'Global Temperature'
Science Daily - Discussions on global warming often refer to 'global temperature.' Yet the concept is thermodynamically as well as mathematically an impossibility, says Bjarne Andresen, a professor at The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, who has analyzed this topic in collaboration with professors Christopher Essex from University of Western Ontario and Ross McKitrick from University of Guelph, Canada.
