3 pointsby bilsbie20 hours ago4 comments
  • TheAtomic19 hours ago
    Geography and time periods cherry-picking. The US is not the world so this is irrelevant to a discussion re global warming. Pre-1960 in the US includes the Dust Bowl droughts, a multi-year drought with a vicious positive reinforcement loop, exactly the kind of thing we want to avoid by addressing global warming.
  • while_true_20 hours ago
    Why was the period 1961-2020 chosen? Why omit the years 2021 to 2025? The X user appears to be a climate denier and is cherry-picking data to support their agenda.

    In 2020 the average US temperature was 55.7 F. In 2025 it was 57.8 F, an increase of 2.1 F in only five years. The cherry-picking conveniently excludes 2022 when the US set an all-time record of 34 days where the max temp exceeded 100 F.

    • lax4ever20 hours ago
      The chart in the post appears to at least include 2020 through 2024...
      • while_true_14 hours ago
        Yes, but the bars shown don't match the NOAA data source I found. Also, if the chart goes to 2025 then why was the 1961 to 2020 period chosen for the average? Doesn't make sense.
  • mold_aid18 hours ago
    "Thankfully I can crib from John Christy's work, reproduced here out of context and without attribution"
  • antibull18 hours ago
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