XPost: alt.global-warming   
   From: kym@kymhorsell.com   
      
   In sci.environment johnny-knowall  wrote:   
   > On 5 Jan 2018, 7 aka Joe Michael@London wrote   
   > (in article ):   
   >> johnny-knowall wrote:   
   >> >   
   >> > It looks like 2017 was slightly less hot than 2015 and and 2016, but still   
   >> > warmer than every other year this century, and a whole degree warmer than   
   >> > 1990 globally.   
   >> >   
   >> > The deniers will have orgasmed themselves to the point of death, but I   
   >> > will withhold my celebrations until we get somewhere near 1980 figures.   
   >> >   
   >> > After all, that was less than 40 years ago.   
   >> I have built my AGW is now slightly less hootier ogasmatron.   
   >> La la la waaa waaa waaa... I think I had enough.. may be not.. a little   
   >> quickiee...   
   >> La la la waaa waaa waaa waaa.. cream cream cream ahhh!!! that is better :)   
   >> Non-deniers can rejoice too.   
   >> Cream with me... for the weather is less hootier than before   
   >> and cooldiest on record for first time since records were fiddled.   
   >> 2017 The Hootiest Year on Record (THYoR)   
   > No it isn?t; but then we had this about 10 years ago - five years of   
   > stagnation in global temperatures met by the ignorants shouting that the ice   
   > age cometh, followed by a sudden 40% rise in global temperatures over the   
   > following three years, when they subsequently went very quiet.   
   > Even to get back to the ?celebratory? 2007 levels we would need to drop   
   > globally by 0.3C from 2017?s lower figure.   
   > If this ever happens, then I will be the first to congratulate Numpty Trumpty   
   > on his policies; but I will not be holding my breath.   
   > We have seen this before, but the trend since 1970 has been ever upwards .   
      
      
   I noticed some group that sends out weekly tweets about how cool   
   things are getting have adopted 2016 as the new standard "normal".   
   Pretty much like the same kooks did back in the 00s when they started using   
   1998 as the yardstick to measure other annual temps by.   
      
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   theory successfully predicts phenomena that are later observed, one   
   can be confident that the theory captures something essential about   
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