Sally Vixxxxxens wrote:
No Way wrote:http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/07/15/april_may_and_june_2014_is_the_warmest_three_month_period_ever.html"The Japan Meteorological Agency said June 2014 was the warmest June globally since at least 1891, when its dataset begins. This follows May 2014, which was the warmest May globally on record, which follows April 2014, which was the warmest April globally on record."
But yeah, let's use Kansas City as our only reference point.
So...you want us to consider the Earth's temps over the last 125 years? Are you serious? When the Earth is 4.6 BILLION years and you want us to look at the last 125 years? Seriously?
But, actually, climatologists have access to more extensive data. It might not be as precise as modern records, but scientists mine the natural world (ice, etc.) for indications of prior temperature and climactic conditions. Really, we're not limited to the the last one hundred years.
But, the limited time scale is sort of the point, Sally. The fact that over such a short interval (since the Industrialization - really, in the last century) things have changed so dramatically. That does not square with the long arc climate data.