Open Mind

Global temperature shows a lot of variations; it goes up and down in a manner which is partly predictable and partly unpredictable. One of the important issues of global warming is how temperature will change over the long run. For this issue, we’re less interested in the short-term, year-to-year or month-to-month, day-to-day or moment-to-moment fluctuations which go up and down but average out to zero, and more interested in the persistent changes that behave more steadily and consistently over many years, decades, or longer. We’re interested in the trend.

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It seems some people want to discuss things in threads to which they don’t belong. So, here’s another open thread about climate science. If you want to discuss political candidates, talk about their climate-science policies but not other things; that’s just too big a can of worms. And if you want to discuss other climate-related topics, feel free.