Record Temperatures

[Qwark]

The lack of basic physics of how the composition of the atmosphere can influence the temperature, never ceases to amaze me. Anyways climate change is a trend which is measurable over long frames. I would say 30 years at minimum. Individual weather records have little to do with them. In the end they are small dots in a graph. All numbers are pointing towards the planet heating up/ changing at an almost unpresented rate.

Natural climate change is pretty much not measurable over the life span of a human. At least if oxygen isotopes, geological data, fossil data etc. is somewhat accurate. At the current projections we can heat the mean global temperature up by almost 3 degrees in onehundred years (and killing large ecosystems like coral reefs with them). By comparison during the last ice age the average global temperature was only 5 degrees lower than before the industrial revolution.

Also for those who doubt the effect of the atmosphere composition on the climate. Venus is way hotter than mercurius. Even though the latter is much closer to the sun. The main difference is the thickness of the atmosphere.