Odd Lots

[jeff_duntemann]

• It's Back to the Future Day, and apart from antigravity, well, Marty McFly's 2015 looks more or less like the one we live in, only with better food and inifinitely worse partisan tribalism. If predicting 19 Jaws sequels is the second-worst worst flub the series made, well, I'm good with that.
• October 21 is also the day that the

Comments

[chris_gerrib]

Regarding Greenland ice - So there’s a spike on the last six weeks, yet when you look at this chart of the whole year, you see the ice melt of the past 12 months is two standard deviations higher than the 1980-2010 average.

[jeff_duntemann]

I didn't say that six weeks of freeze is climate. Are you saying that 12 months of melt is climate?

How long must a trend last to be considered climate? Give me a number; no other reply required.

[chris_gerrib]

20 years?

Saying that "Greenland is far from melting" based on 6 weeks of data is like saying "the Titanic is far from sinking" because it bobbed up an inch or two because of shifting weight.

[jeff_duntemann]

20 years is a good number. I'll take it.

We're 18 years 9 months and change into The Pause, and if it lasts until February 1, 2017, it'll be 20. Good beefy article here:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/09/04/the-pause-lengthens-yet-again/

[madfilkentist]

Thanks for an interesting and voluminous collection of links, as usual. I've read part of the piece on Star Wars and found it very much on target so far.