August 04, 2012 11:15 PM UTC
(Updated: August 04, 2012 11:18 PM UTC)
You might have noticed that broken records for COLD are getting rarer, and that broken records for HOT are becoming commonplace. It looks like this:
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Comments: 4
Based on the assumption that the blue means cold records broken and red means warm records broken, this reflects what I've seen elsewhere as well. The number of broken heat records versus broken cold records has increased continuously over the decades, which is just one more of the many lines of evidence unequivocally demonstrating that the planet has been warming due to our activities, most notably the burning of fossil fuels. I see the "anomaly" level has also shifted, that is, the heat is getting hotter in magnitude, not just in number.
The graphic also makes those people look silly who come on here touting a handful of cold records as somehow negating the heat records - the old "one red ball in a barrel of 1000 blue balls negates the existence of all the blue balls" fallacy.
rather Predictably, John Christy from Alabama responded by saying that only five decades is not enough time to be significant. If you visit huffington post, Seth borenstein has an article on it entitled "Climate Change Study ties recent heat waves to global warming" which contains the basic facts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX2KyF0p-xU&feature=share
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming-links.html