What is an Average Global Warming?

What is an average global temperature, and an average global warming?? These statistics mean nothing. It is like asking what is the average phone number of Washington DC? These are some of the questions asked by Tom Harris, of the International Climate Science Coalition (Ottawa, Canada). See-- “Taken By Storm” (2007), by Canadian researchers Christopher Essex and Ross McKitrick “Temperature is not an amount of something [like height or weight]. It is a number that represents the condition of a physical system. In thermodynamics it is known as an intensive quantity, in contrast to quantities like energy, which have an additive property, which we call extensive in thermodynamics.” Even if enough accurate surface temperature measurements existed to ensure reasonable planetary coverage (it doesn’t) and to calculate some sort of global temperature statistic, interpreting its significance would be challenging. What averaging rule would you use to handle the data from thousands of temperature-sensing stations? Mean, mode, median, root mean square? Science does not tell us. For some groups of close temperature measures (and NASA and NOAA are dealing with thousands of very close temperatures), one method of calculating an average can lead to a determination of warming while another can lead to a conclusion of cooling. Even if you could calculate some sort of meaningful global temperature statistic, the figure would be unimportant. No one and nothing would experience it directly since we all live in regions, not the globe. There is no super-sized being straddling the planet, feeling global averages in temperature. Global warming does not matter. Are you really ready to shut down coal electricity, and have wind power that only works part of the time??????? The Queen of England is getting hot, the oligarchy and their banker boys and girls are having a ball..... As Jay Lehr, science director of the Chicago-based Heartland Institute said, “It is a scam that dwarfs all others that have come before.”