What's up with that? Comments of the Day!

Hey, it's been awhile! Today, I decided to make a new post to highlight a couple of noteworthy comments from the Watts Up With That climate skeptic denier blog. Consistent with climate modeling, the United States has recently experienced an incredible stretch of warmth. In fact, the most recent 12 months have been the warmest of any 12-month period since reliable records began in 1895. NCDC noted that each of the past 12 months have fallen within the upper tercile of the historic distribution -- a feat with a 1/540,000 chance under random variability. This 12-month period is also notable for containing the 2nd warmest summer on record, the 4th warmest winter on record, and a record-shattering spring season.

Rather, than acknowledge that these temperature anomalies are almost certainly being driven by global warming, Anthony instead goes on the defense accusing NOAA of hiding cold temperature records. The post was followed by the typical asinine nonsense that one can only read following an Anthony Watts post.  Below are my personal favorites!

My personal favorite was a comment from Bill Yarber, which I've shared to the left.  Bill argues that temperatures were 5 to 7 degrees Celsius warmer than today millions of years -- a period of time in which CO2 concentrations were allegedly 7,000 ppm. Bill argues that this proves the earth didn't experience a tipping point. Hmm... Earth to Bill! There weren't 7+ billion people on this planet millions of years ago! I'd reckon a global temperature increase of 5 to 7 degrees Celsius would be pretty freakin' devastating today!

Honorable mention has been reserved for Pamela Gray. Pam, like Bill, is unimpressed by the recent warmth. Pam wonders why, if global warming is true, it has been so darn cold in the Pacific Northwest! Pam reckons that, since CO2 is a well-mixed gas, temperature likewise should be uniform if CO2 were the cause of climate change! Umm... hello? Pam, have you ever heard of something called the WEATHER? You know, like cold fronts and warm fronts, or whatnot? I don't think global warming theory posits that the weather will suddenly cease to exist, or that it can never be colder than normal.  Keep in mind too that recent warming has only been on the order of 1C.