Not exact matches
«We see this in the Antarctic Dry Valleys, where
seasonal temperature
variation is sufficient to form and sustain lakes
even though mean annual temperature is well below freezing,» Palumbo said.
Since this does not include any climatic
variations (not
even the
seasonal cycle), let alone a test period with a different CO2 level, this data test is unable to constrain the upper limit of the climate sensitivity range.
However, there are substantial spatial and
seasonal variations in this field
even in the multi-model means depicted in Figure 10.9.
And nine months is not
even long enough to figure out the
seasonal variation (spring, summer, autumn, winter) for a single year, let alone whether there is a long term trend up or down.
Even though such transitory influences as day and night or
seasonal variations in photosynthesis cause clearly visible swings in the curve, the 30 percent drop between 1929 and 1932 caused not a ripple: empirical scientific evidence that the human contribution is in fact less than a fart in a hurricane, as Dr. Hertzberg says.
Seasonal, annual and
even decadal
variations would cancel each other out if measured over a long enough period.