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 Originally Posted by OngBonga
Thermometers. Nice. I do actually have one of those, and I can see global warming happening right now. I took it outside, and it said 17 degrees. I came back in the house, and just ten minutes later it's 22 degrees. Fuck me, in an hour or two I'll be dead..
Your house and the space around it today are not a representative sample of the Earth's climate over the past 150 years or so.
 Originally Posted by OngBonga
Are you aware that our thermometers have been getting better and more accurate over the last century or so? Are you also aware that the number of places around the world that we measure the temperature has increased massively over the last century or so?
I guess your argument is that thermometers must have been systematically underestimating global temperatures until we refined them enough to finally take accurate measurements?
By that logic, if you go to a museum and find an old thermometer and test it against a modern one, the modern one should show a higher temperature. And this should be true for a range of old and modern thermometers. The older ones always show colder than the modern ones. Moreover, as you go through your historical lineage of thermometers, reported temperature should correlate strongly with the years the thermometer was in use.
That is quite the creative theory.
 Originally Posted by OngBonga
Lion-type animals in a galaxy far, far away don't give a fuck.
Why should they? They don't live here. We do.
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