cohenite,

Well that was pretty wet.

WUWT is wall to wall with non-peer reviewed "stuff", and you're criticising Tamino because he didn't take Goodridge by the hand and explain his mistake - that's what peer-review is for.

I mean to say - Anthony Watts, Jo Nova and yourself, amongst many others, make it a daily ritual to abuse and blow raspberries at climate scientists - and you have the gall to criticise one of them because he didn't pull any punches in exposing WUWT's standard of "science".

...and then, having slung yourself neatly amidst the fairy-lights of "outraged skepticism", you turn on your best faux school ma'am routine and tell us to go home and think about it.

That's funny!

>>Guys, gravity is the only scientific conclusion I would consider 'settled'. I have tested the hypothesis, personally, on numerous occasions.<<

ROFLMAO.

I think it's a very safe bet that you have tested Einstein's general theory of relativity precisely nil times. I think your personal 'testing' of the 'hypothesis' of gravity amounts to not much more than getting pissed and measuring how often you fall over. This doesn't test anything: falling over is classical physics and it has already been well quantified.

You're decoherent so quantum mechanics doesn't apply and you aren't quite fat enough for general relativity to apply. You just get boring old classical mechanics. And I doubt you've even tested that rigourously - just fallen over a lot and hoped that counts for something.

Cheers,

Tony

“On Monday, the average maximum temperature across the country was 40.33 °C, surpassing the old record of 40.17 °C set in 1976. "Previously, the only time we ever had a sequence above 39 °C was four days in 1973," says Karl Braganza of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. "Today will make it seven days."”

“Heatwaves like this are becoming more common as the planet warms, Markus Donat of the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales told New Scientist. "If we take the 5 per cent warmest events from 1951 to 1980, and look at the next 30 year period, then these warmest events have become 40 per cent more frequent," he said. His analysis will appear in the Journal of Geophysical Research.”

Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

“Last year was the hottest on record for the contiguous United States, shattering the previous mark set in 1998 by a wide margin, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Tuesday.
The average temperature was 55.3 degrees, 1 degree above the previous record and 3.2 degrees more than the 20th-century average. Temperatures were above normal in every month between June 2011 and September 2012, a 16-month stretch that hasn’t occurred since the government began keeping such records in 1895.”

>>On Monday, the average maximum temperature across the country was 40.33 °C, surpassing the old record of 40.17 °C set in 1976. "Previously, the only time we ever had a sequence above 39 °C was four days in 1973," says Karl Braganza of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.<<

Isn't that interesting? Long periods of unseasonably cold weather don't weaken the global warming hypothesis but as soon as the mercury hits 310K it's soundly confirmed.

I thought climate was not the same thing as weather.

Which way do you want it guys? You can't eat your cake and have it too. If hot weather is meaningful then so is cold weather... or else no weather is meaningful.

Cheers,

Tony

“While temperatures vary on a local and regional scale, globally it has been 27 years since the world experienced a month that was colder than average.”

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/records-will-keep-tumbling-with-blistering-heatwaves-here-to-stay-20130108-2cetq.html#ixzz2HQFJrCSh

Note that is not a record colder month; just colder than average.

Posted by Tony Lavis
Isn't that interesting? Long periods of unseasonably cold weather don't weaken the global warming hypothesis but as soon as the mercury hits 310K it's soundly confirmed.
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You are on the right track the fact is we are breaking many more temperatures on the hot side than the cold which is another clear indication of global warming.

The ratio of record high temperatures to record lows in a stable climate would be 1 to 1 but since the 1970s this figure has been steadily increasing.
1980s 1.14 to 1
1990s 1.36 to 1
2000s 2.04 to 1

2010 2.3 to 1
2011 2.8 to 1