Special Causes and Common Causes

[m_francis]

Hot Times in the Old Town Tonight

You will hear it said that February 2010 was the second-warmest February on record, which indeed it may be.  (Whether it is the second-warmest based on raw data or the second-warmest based on adjusted data, I do not know.)  We are, however, in an El Nino, and "the Kid" typically drives dramatic spikes in the temp

Comments

Weather or not...

[jjbrannon]

...'tis better to have measured and lost [the data], is not for me to say.

I shall say that this debate is about feelings, not facts, so you're already operating at a net loss in pitching **evidence** toward the public.

However, I appreciated the effort.

JJB

[pagadan]

Here in central Florida, we had a very cold winter with hard freezes. (I suspect a number of plants aren't going to come back this year.) I saw on a weather report that Tampa had the second coldest winter--in recorded history; and locally we got up to 80 degrees on only one day this year--January 24. We had a nice amount of rain this winter too, and the pond and surrounding swamps are way up.