john fernbach wrote:

On Aug 20, 9:06 pm, Talk-n-Dog
wrote:
Peter Franks wrote:
Roger Coppock wrote:
Here, from Hadley Centre, are the global sea
surface
temperatures from 1850 to 2006. Please see:

http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/HadSST2gl.jpg

As predicted by Arrhenius over a century
ago, the rate of sea warming is slower than
global land
warming. NASA GISS has global land surface
warming at .58K/per century between 1880 and
2006. (Please see:

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata/GLB.Ts.txt)

These data come from:

http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/

Why is 1970-ish the baseline for the
temperature anomaly?

What was the sensitivity/accuracy of the
thermometers used?

Why should I care that sea surface
temperatures have risen over the past 150
years?

If one aspirin helps then 30 will really fix me
up - huh. This is a typical way of thinking,
which overflows into Global Warming, people
think that if a little Co2 makes it a half
degree warmer then a lot of Co2 will make it
really hot.


I like your analogy, Dog. If one aspirin will
cure your headache, then what if you take 200 of
them? Well, they won't probably kill you, but
they won't help either.

So maybe CO2 is like aspirin? "The poison is in
the dose"?

I suggest you put a bag over your head, secure it
around your neck and breath deeply. Calibrate
the toxicity level for us, John