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Conflate weather and climate, I thought that's what "deniers" do?

• Brakenshire 7y ago
  According to normal variations around the long term average, these kind of temperatures would be happening once every 50 or 100 years, but they are happening now every few years. There’s only so many times you can roll a six before you conclude the die is loaded, and you should really start worrying when the die starts rolling sevens!
  • parsnips 7y ago
    These temperatures are breaking 60-70 year old records. For example the prior Paris record was set in July 1947. And is about to drop to seasonal averages starting tomorrow (80s F)... You're quite wrong on this.
    • Brakenshire 7y ago
      That's a good point for single day records, for cities, but not for longer term and larger scale anomalies. The more you zoom in on time or scale the more noise dominates signal, and the less effect any warming trend will have. Here are the yearly figures for the 100 km grid square which contains Paris, for reference: https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/local-temperature-interactive/data/charts/gridcell_48.5_2.5.csv https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/local-temperature-interac...