That last comment specious - and unworthy of discussion. This morning where I live the temperature increased fro 1C to 9.5 ºC in 3 hours = 28.22ºC per fortnight - is that enough top be called rapid?

EM get serious or get off the air!
Mar 19, 2016 at 12:58 PM | Unregistered CommenterPaleoclimate Buff

Yes, Paleoclimate Buff;

Previously, I had said to EM:

How fast do temperatures have to change before you call it rapid?

Here, it has been changing at around 1°C per hour since 9:00, but I would not call that specially rapid.

To which EM replied, apparently with a straight face:
A rate which is normal for a diurnal range would be abnormal on a geological timescale.

In the same vein as your comment; I said:

Of course. I had hoped (but forlornly) that you'd see the parallel between that and what you had yourself said.

“...abnormal on a geological timescale” And yet you see no problem in your pretending that a fluctuation measured over one month can be meaningfully compared with the mean change over ten thousand years?

Really EM, coming up with things like that, how can you expect to be taken even just a little bit seriously?
Mar 17, 2016 at 2:55 PM Martin A