Named storm Andrea May 2019

[AllenRbrts]

Originally Posted by smacksman

@GordMay
So a bit like Neil Frank - not actual data but extrapalated/approximate/modified data. So aircraft at 12000m measures temperature which number crunches to temperature at 10m.
I read a paper by a uni prof on output of solar panels. I checked his calculations at each paragraph and all was fine till he multiplied his measured output per hour by 24 to give the daily output! He then went on multiply up for average house roof area, etc. etc. to achieve a national power supply. I expect his figure was then used by other eminent men to prove their argument for something else. And so on.
ie. if you wished, you can manipulate data (even erroeous data) in any way to match your argument.
I must say, having sailed across oceans, the world is so big and we are so small, it is hard to believe we have much impact on climate to any great extent.

Surface wind speeds are not extrapolated from wind speeds at 40,000 ft. If you want to learn the science behind surface wind speed measurements by hurricane aircraft, read https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/MWR3454.1 which explains how microwave measurements of sea state are correlated with measuring devices dropped from the aircraft.

The comment that the world is large is so how could man change it, ignores the large body of science which documents how man is indeed changing the world environment. While perhaps the direct impacts are small like a couple of degrees shift in average global temperature, the overall effects might be quite large.

[GordMay]

Originally Posted by smacksman

... not actual data but extrapalated/approximate/modified data...
... if you wished, you can manipulate data (even erroeous data) in any way to match your argument...

Hmmmmm ...

[MarkusK]

Originally Posted by AllenRbrts

Not sure I see a pattern.Attachment 192553

If you look at the last 3 decades, a sharp increase!

[smacksman]

Ha ha! I love Dilbert.