If you’re 27 or younger, you’ve never experienced a colder-than-average month

Too bad such an important topic is covered by such a shitty post. Obviously the expert source referenced in the article <a href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2012/10" rel="nofollow">http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2012/10</a> is referring to global average temperature.

Average over what timescale? If you take it back 250 million years, then every human being alive has seen <i>only</i> colder than average months.

This title is nonsensical. The temperatures referred to are global averages. Yet the only ones people can actually experience are local temperatures, which sometimes are lower than average.

How is this "beyond astonishing"? 27 years is minuscule on in a geologic time scale. Climate trends are measured in hundreds and thousands of years, if not more.

And between April 1889 and October 1925, there wasn't a single warmer-than-average month.<p>ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/anomalies/monthly.land_ocean.90S.90N.df_1901-2000mean.dat<p>An interesting anomaly is the warming between the 1860s and 1940s. Especially given the comparatively slight amount of CO2 released in those decades compared to our own.<p>Temperature norms may move across greater timescales than just 100-150 years. Of course, if we were to explore that, the discussion goes off the rails into talk about the "MWP," "historical reconstructions," "Mann, et al.," and other murkily useless topics for internet bulletin boards.

&#62; <i>above the 20th century average</i><p>so, we're 12 years into this century, and he's comparing to a 100 years span. 27 years which means 15 years of the last century. selective number picking. meaningless post, move on.

Unless you live in the UK or France (to my certain knowledge) and probably a huge chunk of the world beyond that.