Reason #5: Temperature readings – plus or minus.
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I’m neither a denier nor a zealot … so, according to British writer (& phrase-coiner) Matt Ridley, I’m a “lukewarmer”.
In a prior posts, I covered: (1) Unsettling science (2) Expired doomsday predictions (3) The “97% of scientists” baloney and (4) Dinking with the data .
Let’s move on…
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Reason #5: Temperature readings – plus or minus.
Let’s start with a personal story….
Last week I had an air conditioning problem that I isolated to the thermostat … specifically, the themometer’s digital thermometer.
For openers, I showed the HVAC repair guy my handy portable digital thermometer that was reading 73 degrees … and pointed to the thermostat which was reading 76 degrees.
He reached into his bag and pulled out “truth” … a fancy electronic gadget that measures temperatures precisely (or so the guy said).
Guess what … “truth” read 74 degrees.
OK, so which was the real temperature?
The guy’s response: “Best we hope for is getting these things within a couple of degrees of each other.”
Really?
We couldn’t get a $1,000 space-age thermostat, a personal digital thermometer (reading temps out to 1 decimal place) … and, of course, the HVAC guys “truth” meter to agree.
Hmmm.
Climate zealots are confidently reporting temperatures for back 100 years ago (when digital thermometers didn’t even exist).
And, they’re confidently forecasting temperatures out a hundred years from now within 1 degree Centigrade.
Think about that for a second …
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