Letter: More data needed to draw conclusions

More data needed to draw conclusions


Regarding your assertion that the polar vortex was not climate ("Don't judge long term trends by local weather system," Reading Eagle, Jan. 9).

Hurricane Sandy, however, was climate and is attributable to anthropogenic global warming, climate change or extreme weather events, according to the warmists.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has reported no warming trend the last 17 years. Niagara Falls is frozen. The Arctic had the largest increase in ice ever recorded after a cyclone caused the minimum. Antarctica has the highest total ice ever recorded.

In addition carbon dioxide has been delinked from temperature for at least two years.

The smallest model of the Earth's climate is the Earth's climate. Since recorded history is actually since 1979 insofar as satellite data is concerned, we should wait until we have enough data points before drawing any conclusions. I suggest 10,000 years.

John-Patrick Brown


Editor's note: The editorial, which made no reference to Hurricane Sandy, was not about the so-called polar vortex but about a weather system in the Antarctic.