The_Barnacle wrote on Oct 6
th, 2019 at 10:21am:
You are deluding yourself lee. The USA makes up an area of 6% of the worlds landmass. Or 2% of the worlds total surface area. You can't seriously call that a "microcosm of the globe"..
Poor petal. So per your pronouncements the USA is specifically NOT representative as a microcosm of the globe. We can therefore ignore Australia at 5%. And then the there the other approximately 190 other countries that are also not a microcosm of the globe. Therefore we should simply ignore them and concentrate on the remaining three namely Russia, Canada and China. Ignoring Antarctica because we have no widespread measurements, mostly around edges.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_areaThanks for the daily laugh.
NOAA gives maps where the grey areas show where there are no readings.
The gray areas denote areas with no temperature readings.
The_Barnacle wrote on Oct 6
th, 2019 at 10:21am:
It's also interesting that you are contradicting past comments you have made that the earth IS actually warming (but that it's too difficult to work out if it is human induced).
Really? Where have I said that? How much, if any, is AGW, how much, if any, natural?
The_Barnacle wrote on Oct 6
th, 2019 at 10:21am:
The fact that nearly all the worlds glaciers are in retreat is incontrovertible proof that the Earth is warming
It is more a reflection on lack of precipitation. Glaciers are indeed "rivers of ice", they flow downstream. No precipitation means there is no renewal at the headwaters.
And only "nearly"? That suggests that if it is solely warming as the cause it is regional rather than global.
You do need to try harder.