"You can certainly find reports in the popular media, people on SI, etc. that go something like this "We set a record low temperature here in podunk, north dakota yesterday, therefore refuting global warming."
Please point out where we are using single location and or single time data points. Why are you spuriously insinuating that the big picture presented here ,by some people who don't believe in the party line, is based on such data?
Minimally we use regional scale (e.g parts of U.S., parts of Russia, etc.) averages as single data points, over at least a month's time average. We also look at critical continent and global scale data points on the scale of months, years, decades centuries and millenia.
There are occasional small scale data points used here to illustrate particular threads that are backed up by the bigger picture (i.e. global warming tour ships frozen in, hee hee) |
