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noosphrtoday at 11:59 AM1 replyview on HN

This isn't climate, it's weather.

There are no proxies that record monthly water temperature. Only second order effects that are at best weakly correlated with water temperature.


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mrkeentoday at 5:10 PM

> I'm not sure how you can make that claim with only 29 years of data without making some pretty big assumptions about the underlying distribution.

Under what circumstances would 29 years be an insufficient mean to compare to the last few years? Precisely those circumstances in which the climate had changed.

> This isn't climate, it's weather.

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