sattemp1979

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   by sattemp1979 3y ago

   Naval ports. Again, a miniscule fraction of the earth's surface. Coverage so sparse that it wouldn't register on a percentage scale with four places after the decimal point. You can't "accurately infill" data that h
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   by sattemp1979 3y ago

   Do you have any idea how much of the earth's land surface (to say nothing of its enormous oceanic heat sink) was covered by temperature observation before 1979? We're talking about a few times a day at a few hundred locations, ove
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   by sattemp1979 3y ago

   From the article: "The results: 10 of the model projections closely matched observations." Not before 1979, they didn't. Because there isn't global temperature data before that. Nothing even close. There isn't ocean
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   by sattemp1979 3y ago

   I should really specify climate models in that bold claim. There's too little data (globally, from satellites, only since 1979) and global climate is not a closed system that can be experimented on. Nobody has any idea what the sun wil