Vaughan Pratt,
You wrote –
“And since “global climate” obviously doesn’t mean this year or last, I’ll stick to the definition implied by the IPCC’s definition of Transient Climate Response, namely a 20-year running average. (The World Meteorological Organization supposedly uses 30 years for the definition of climate but I’ll believe that when I see it on a WMO website.)”
Gee. From a website wmo.int claiming to be the website of the WMO –
“What is Climate?
Climate, sometimes understood as the “average weather,” is defined as the measurement of the mean and variability of relevant quantities of certain variables (such as temperature, precipitation or wind) over a period of time, ranging from months to thousands or millions of years.
The classical period is 30 years, as defined by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Climate in a wider sense is the state, including a statistical description, of the climate system.”
I’m sure you will tell me and others that it’s “not really” the WMO, or they “don’t understand”, or maybe that it’s “more complicated than that”.
Of course, you could refuse to look at the WMO website, and could claim that you didn’t see it.
But no matter. The IPCC thoughtfully supplies the following definition of climate, for those unable to locate the WMO website –
“Climate
Climate in a narrow sense is usually defined as the �average weather�, or more rigorously, as the statistical description in terms of the mean and variability of relevant quantities over a period of time ranging from months to thousands or millions of years. The classical period is 30 years, as defined by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). These quantities are most often surface variables such as temperature, precipitation, and wind. Climate in a wider sense is the state, including a statistical description, of the climate system.”
So, in typical eccentric Warmist fashion, you make up your own definition based on an implication derived from a definition of something else.
Might I suggest you familiarise yourself with relevant definitions, and a grasp of basic physics.
Your sniggers and sneers might be taken more seriously, if you made fewer unsupported assertions. Don’t you agree?
