Small differences can mean big changes

From a comment from a post on global warming:

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2010/02/a-small-price-for-a-large-benefit.html


RB said in reply to Bruce Wilder...

"Now, he's being asked to accept more rules, more expense, because of changes measured in fractions of a degree, per decade!"

When you talk about climatic averages, you ought to be careful in interpreting the numbers: for example, the Medieval Warm period when a greater portion of Greenland was inhabitable and the Little Ice Age when the Thames repeatedly freezed over represented climatic average temperatures of around +/- 0.6C

Reply Feb 21, 2010 at 08:35 AM

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