And otherwise we'd have though the majority of the warming had been since 1942. :)
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[From the Land of the Long Flat River:]
AGW theory can NOT explain why 1/3 of the land has cooled over the
last 70 years.
The scientific findings are NOT consistent with AGW theory. If
Alarmists can not find a reasonable explanation for why/how 1/3 of the
land has cooled over that last 70 years, then AGW theory is rejected
(that is how science works, ask a scientist).
-- 2/3 of land not cooling@Auckland, 25 May 2012
Tyndall predicted [in 1861] that greenhouse warming should cause nights to
warm faster than days. [...]
Tyndall anticipated winters warming faster than summers. [...]
With heat being trapped, we expect to see the lower atmosphere to warm.
But with less heat escaping to space and more carbon dioxide in
the stratosphere, we also expect to see the upper atmosphere cool. [...]
With the lower atmosphere [...] warming and the upper atmosphere [...]
cooling, the boundary between the troposphere and stratosphere, otherwise
known as the tropopause, should rise as a consequence of
greenhouse warming.
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