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Friday Morning
View from our living room, this morning around seven.
Have a great weekend!
When a line isn’t a dotted line
The day before yesterday I linked to an XKCD comic called A Timeline of Earth’s Average Temperature.
NPR: Epic Climate Cartoon Goes Viral, But It Has One Key Problem.
“The solid line comes from real data — from scientists actually measuring the average temperature of Earth’s surface. These measurements allow us to see temperature fluctuations that occur over a very short timescale — say, a few decades or so.
But the dotted line comes from computer models — from scientists reconstructing Earth’s surface temperature. This gives us very, very coarse information. It averages Earth’s temperature over hundreds of years. So we can see temperature fluctuations that occur only over longer periods of time, like a thousand years or so. Any upticks, spikes or dips that occur in shorter time frames get smoothed out.”
“You don’t have to be a quilter – or own a barn!”
“A barn quilt is a quilt block which is painted on a barn.” Read all about them by following the links in this post:
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I think I need to seek some of these out on my next trip to the US.