As time goes on, and
the overall heat of our planet increases, the likelihood of more and more powerful storms increases as well.
The problem is that when Davey correctly pointed out that surface temperatures are only one small piece of overall global warming (about 2 percent), and melting ice and warming oceans must also be considered (over 90 percent of
the overall heating of the planet), Neil remained focused exclusively on surface temperatures.
The rapid heating of the polar regions continues to accelerate (as is
the overall heating of the planet), but key western power population centers are miraculously cool.
Not exact matches
While weather and natural climate patterns play a role in temperatures across the U.S., the
overall background warming
of the
planet has tipped the odds in favor
of heat records and away from cold ones.
So,
overall, the
heating of the entire
planet continues unabated.
While weather patterns have a big impact on monthly temperatures — as the cooler weather
of early August shows — the
overall warming
of the
planet is tipping the odds in favor
of record
heat.
Since in almost all regions
of the
planet, cold kills many more people than
heat, it is likely that
overall fewer people will die because
of temperatures.
Only about 2 %
of the
planet's
overall warming
heats the atmosphere, so if we focus only on surface air temperatures, we miss 98 %
of the
overall warming
of the globe.
However, given that the
overall warming or
heating of the
planet continues at a rate equivalent to 4 Hiroshima atomic bomb detonations per second, this framing
of the issue is clearly inaccurate and misleading.
In their attempt to create the illusion
of ferocious winter weather on a rapidly warming
planet, the geoengineers are actually further fueling the
overall planetary
heating.
So please, by all means, provide me with quantitative estimates for the contribution to the
overall heat budget
of the
planet of each
of the things you cite.
Analysts who have studied the pledges find that they fall short
of the
overall goal
of the agreement, but would make a substantial dent in the greenhouse gas emissions that are
heating the
planet.
In other words, the PDO or whatever could pull the surface temperatures out the
of the range
of variation from the trend line over the preceding 30 years without telling us anything interesting about the
overall heat gain
of the
planet.