17 Replies to “The Planet Has A Fever”

  1. Is that a bar graph or the heart beat monitor showing the heart rate of Monty Python’s parrot?
    Of course Trudeau, Wynne and Notley are the shop keepers insisting the parrot is alive while people not under the thrall of the progressive agenda are the ones seeking a refund for the dead parrot they have been sold.

  2. glad I use my 72″ screen indian TV with my computer, so’s I can see the variance:-)))

  3. How DARE the graph-maker NOT use an exaggerated-scale y-axis !! Of course this graph looks tame ! You HAVE to blow-up the y-axis ! Haven’t you learned anything from all the BRIGHT RED weather maps ? By coloring 80deg. F. temps in BRIGHT RED … you can easily convince a dull-witted public just how BLAZING HOT the earth has become (because of all those hicks who drive pick-up trucks).

  4. This graph is very interesting and I want to track its provenance and examine the methodology used so I know exactly what it is showing (and what I would be talking about). The URL displayed leads nowhere (even when entered manually). Could you please provide some working links to the source. Thank you much.

  11. Neil, I’m not sure you’re typing in the URL properly. Try clicking on this … http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata_v3/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt
    Anyway, it takes me to GISS’ annual and monthly temp anomaly page. It’s pretty straight forward. GISS uses a base period, 1951-1980, to declare what they believe the average global temp should be. It was 14 deg C, or 57.2 deg F, according to GISS. So, then, all one does is take their anomalies, which are in Celsius, and multiply by 1.8 to get it in F. Add those numbers to the 57.2 and there’s the stated global average temperature.
    Cheers,
    James

  12. Scarier, and closer to the consensus if you tip the right side of the monitor way up.

  13. Clearly the graph just proves that 99% of scientists agree that math is racist.

  14. Clearly the graph simply proves that 99% of scientists agree that math is racist.

  15. do my emissions count when I am not in Canada? I spend a lot of time in Florida and judging from the volume of Ontario plates seen here many people are not emitting anything in Canada.

  16. “…many people are not emitting anything in Canada.”
    Yeah. Snowbirds usually don’t. Thow Palm Springs in there as well.
    Heh.

  17. Ahh. Thank you. Missed the underscore.
    Your explanation reveals all but to ensure I am doing this right pls check me out as follows:
    – The base period 1951 – 1980 is used to calculate an average annualized (ideal??) earth temperature of 57.2 degrees F;
    – The data set is derived by first measuring (somehow) global temperatures for each month for each year;
    – Next, the amount by which each month’s temperature differs from 57.2 is calculated;
    – For 2016, the mean temperature anomaly for January was 113 or (113 / 100) x 1.8 = 2.034 degrees F;
    – Next, the monthly anomalies are annualized yielding .98 degrees C as taken from the Jan – Dec AnnMean column;
    – .98 degrees C x 1.8 becomes 1.764 degrees F for 2016;
    – 1.764 degrees F + 57.2 degrees F = 58.964 degrees F which is the global average temperature for 2016; and,
    – You plot 58.964 on your chart.
    Conclusion: eyeballing the temperature anomalies for the entire period (1880 – 2017), there is a definite warming trend but when the scale is represented accurately as you do in your (rather ingenious) Alcohol Thermometer display, the anomalies are shown to be immaterial. Simply put, use an absolute not a relative scale to display what is happening to temperature.
    Did I get it?

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