{"id":1126,"date":"2008-11-24T00:56:43","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T04:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2008-11-24T00:56:43","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T04:56:43","slug":"on-climate-two-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1126","title":{"rendered":"On Climate &#8230; Two Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On global warming.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>If quarterly or monthly <em>global <\/em>mean tropospheric temperature averages (which isn&#8217;t &#8220;weather&#8221; by the way) aren&#8217;t meaningful than what is? What weather data <em>is meaningful<\/em> when talking about climate &#8220;change?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Those temperatures have been trending sharply down for about 30 months or so now. How much longer before the downward trend becomes meaningful?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On global warming. 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