Dr. Hansen has announced that 2010 was the hottest year ever, beating 2005 by 0.01 degrees. If warming continues at that rate (0.02 degrees per decade) temperatures will rise by an unmanageable 0.18 degrees before the year 2100. That will surely cause the ice caps to melt and Manhattan to drown.
Of course, given that Hansen’s error bar is about +/- 0.4 degrees, it is just as likely that we will sink into an ice age. But regardless of what happens, it is America’s fault and we need the Chinese to sort it out.
With conservative errors of .4, and that is giving them a lot, they are all just pulling numbers out of their _____ to justify their jobs!
Stick a linear trend on a graph of the CET: the slope is all of 0.024C/decade for three and a half centuries. So at this rate we’ll reach the IPCC’s magic 2 C limit just in time for their eagerly awaited AR124 report in 833 years time.
CET ? we haven’t performed the needed adjustments on that yet have we ?