Billy Bunter
Monday 25th September 2023 11:40am
The Sussex Coast
4,654 posts
Quote: Chris Hallam @ 24th September 2023, 9:44 AM
You misunderstand.
The ten hottest recorded temperatures over the last 173 years have all been since 2010.
Lots of evidence temperatures have risen dramatically in recent decades compared to the previous 2000 years too.
I don't misunderstand at all. You clearly cited the fact that the hottest temperatures over the past 173 have all been since 2010 as evidence of "climate change" (presumably human-induced). And now you've extended it to "recent decades". Neither "13 years" nor "recent decades" is anywhere near long-term enough to cite as evidence of permanent climate change.
As I explained previously:
Quote: Billy Bunter @ 17th July 2023, 9:24 AM
The thing is we've always had climate change. That's why, in the past, there have been ice ages. And then there weren't. At the moment there isn't. At some time in the distant future there probably will be. Again.
If you look at a graph of global mean temperatures over the past 500,000 years, you will see that the mean temperature has dropped, risen and then dropped back again periodically, rising and falling on virtually identical gradients each time. At the moment we're on another upward gradient.