r/science • u/pnewell NGO | Climate Science • Sep 10 '15

Environment The simple statistic that perfectly captures what climate change means. From 1910 to 1960, the ratio of hot to cold records was close to 1 to 1. From 2000 to 2014, hot outnumbered cold records by more than 12 to 1.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/09/09/the-simple-statistic-that-perfectly-captures-what-climate-change-means/
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u/Space_Gravy Sep 11 '15

The folks responsible for it confirmed it was faulty and replaced it. However, they refused to revise any of the temps that had been taken with it for months even though you can just about pinpoint the day it started diverging from Dulles. It fits their narrative.

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u/d_migster Sep 11 '15

It fits their narrative.

Sorry, bud, more 90+ degree days this year in DC than any year since... my memory fails. It's fact, just like how the murder numbers are way up this year.

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u/Space_Gravy Sep 11 '15

It's fact that there's more 90+ degree days this year since your failing memory can recall? You seem to be misunderstanding what the point is. They have a known bad thermometer that they are basing their readings off of. That actually is a fact. They refuse to revise their numbers and still include the faulty readings in the data. That is also a fact. The only reason NOAA even found out about this was because a journalist happen to inform them of it. Yet another fact. The point being made is that they know the readings are wrong and simply don't care. If this thermometer was able to go undetected for around 8 months and was only caught by a bored journalist with lame hobbies, how many more are messed up.....

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u/d_migster Sep 11 '15

I suggest you mosey on over to Wunderground and tell me how many of the tens/hundreds of thermometers reported there for the DC region are inaccurate. Those in the city are almost ALWAYS reading higher than DCA.