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I live in Phoenix, AZ. The temperature map in the article seems to show that for this area the July temperature difference from 1951-1980 average is in the lowe

I live in Phoenix, AZ. The temperature map in the article seems to show that for this area the July temperature difference from 1951-1980 average is in the lowest segment (-2 to 2). It had been my impression that it was noticeably hotter this summer. The heat arrived later than normal, but stronger. In my perception at least, which may be influenced by the fact I just came in from the outside and am still sweating like crazy :-/ We don't seem to have a handle on this warming, and there is no real will to tackle this problem. It seems we are determined to wait for bigger consequences before we'll be convinced to act. At which point it might be easier to just migrate, and keep polluting. That's how we humans roll.

LoSboccacc 11y ago
Part of the problem is that the system is quite chaotic. A measurement change well within our instrument tolerance can give incredibly different simulation of the evolution of the climate. Heck the whole chaos theory was basically born from observations of the instability of weather models What I noticed mostly is that our forecasts are getting sensibly worse even in the short period. If I had time for a serious research, I'd look more at how some climate change happened to modify the patterns that we previously used successfully in our models because with confidence in forecast simulations dropping is gonna be very hard to make sense of any data. Especially since dire predictions from the seventies eighties and nineties all turned wrong and people is desensebilizing to the problem, even if the risk is about the unknown unknown more than the actual known