The summer of 1980 « The Greenroom

Collated data and human anecdotal experience deliver the same message about weather: it comes in cycles. What you’re seeing on any given day is virtually guaranteed not to be the “worst” or “most” it’s ever been – “ever” includes at a minimum some 80,000 to 100,000 years’ worth of climate conditions suitable for human life, of which we have directly measured no more than about 150. In fact, whatever you’re seeing today is probably not even the worst or most in the last 40 years. Anecdote, transient impressions, and ignorance of the recent past should not be invoked to convince us that a given theory (like anthropogenic global warming/climate change) is invalid – but neither should they to convince us that it is valid.