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originally posted by: dfnj2015
a reply to: Zimnydran
Earth’s 2016 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Globally-averaged temperatures in 2016 were 1.78 degrees Fahrenheit (0.99 degrees Celsius) warmer than the mid-20th century mean. This makes 2016 the third year in a row to set a new record for global average surface temperatures.
NASA, NOAA Data Show 2016 Warmest Year on Record Globally
The thing is the people at NASA are just a little bit smarter than you. Here, I will help you with the big bad scientific words. The word "average" is a mathematical concept. Math is the study of numbers and their relationships. Here's the mathematical definition of "average":
Now I know its difficult when people are so much smarter than you. But try to understand something. When you were struggling to solve for x in algebra class, the people at NASA were solving those problems in their heads. They knew more than their teachers did long before anything came out of their teacher's mouths.
I met this mathematician, he was the smartest human being I've ever met. He wrote books in pilish. Pilish is a type of constrained poetry where each word in the text has the same number of characters in the sequence of PI, 3.14159... Here is his latest book:
The point I am trying to make is people with average intelligence just don't understand for a reason.
originally posted by: dfnj2015
originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: dfnj2015
I didn't state an opinion. I asked a question.
Again, I will not answer the question because I am not a NASA scientist. I could track down peered reviewed publish papers and talk about how the researchers deal with sample size, but, I will just assume the the NASA scientist thought about that little bit of it.
originally posted by: dfnj2015When you were struggling to solve for x in algebra class, the people at NASA were solving those problems in their heads. They knew more than their teachers did long before anything came out of their teacher's mouths