"Temperature variations" refers to the changes or differences in temperature.
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The subject of reconstructions
of temperature variations of the past millennium has been discussed many times before on this site (see e.g. here, here, here, and here).
The hockey stick was a term coined for a chart of
temperature variation over the last 1,000 years, which suggested a recent sharp rise in temperature caused by human activities.
However, they are affected
by temperature variations and suffer from low electric power and limited lifetime (often around a few hundred charge / discharge cycles).
Now that gap in research has been plugged, according to scientists who carried out a detailed analysis of
temperature variations at both poles.
The full range of global mean
temperature variation during the last 1000 years — which has seen the coming and going of a Little Ice Age — is only about one degree C.
Scientific studies show
extreme temperature variations end up causing fewer deaths in the long run in any particular location as the population quickly adapts.
If the observation that CO2 lags temperature by 800 years is accurate, then debating short term variations of atmospheric CO2 when compared to short
term temperature variations of that atmosphere seems pointless.
Historically, today's temperature trends are entirely within in the realm of what has taken place in the past from
natural temperature variation, regardless of CO2 levels.
Although our past two summers have been relatively mild, we certainly experience weeks of temperatures in the 90s with
little temperature variation at night and continued high humidity.
However, the observed precipitation — temperature scaling relationships have been established almost exclusively by linking precipitation extremes with day - to -
day temperature variations.
Since the current solar minimum has been somewhat contracted, the solar cycle contribution to
current temperature variation might be a little bit more negative....
I've extracted a portion of one of the pages on their site dealing with
ground temperature variations with season, location, and depth below the surface.
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