Let's take Berkeley Earth's gridded daily maximum land temperature over the (approx.) continental US. For each grid cell, find the 95th-percentile temperature from the entire time series (1880-2020) and then count the number of days each year that exceed that.
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Here's the occurrence heat waves warmer than the 95th percentile, where the temperature of a heat wave is the average temperature. For the last two tweets, the y-axis is the sum of days over all grid boxes over the (approx.) continental US.pic.twitter.com/vxHuxZNjvM
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It's clear that Lomborg's defense will be "I was just using a plot off the EPA website." But there are lots of plots on that page and he picked the *one* that presented the message he likes.https://twitter.com/BjornLomborg/status/1429122271009021954?s=20 …
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That's a weak response. If you know anything about climate then you know the plot looks off and you owe your audience a minimal amount of due diligence before tweeting it out.
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just for completeness: here are the multi-day heat waves for the entire NH mid-lats. This plot uses the minimum Tmax during a time span as the temp of the heat wave. Plotted here is the occurrence of heat waves > 95th percentile.pic.twitter.com/AbhFwFqfgp
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This plot uses the average temperature of the time span as the temp of the heat wave. Again, plotting time series of occurrence of heat waves > 95th percentile. Y axis is grid cells times days.pic.twitter.com/6Oo3vVJPN8
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Tämä twiitti ei ole saatavilla.
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What does 'warmer than the 95th percentile' tell you?
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You're making up your own heatwave measure of *minimum* temps EPA and US Fourth National Climate Assessment *both* insist heatwaves or warm spells — of course — are max of max, and peaked in 1930s Using EPA and CSSR
Dessler-index of min temps,
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https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/6/ pic.twitter.com/I2LST9wBXW
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Sorry, it's hard to explain methodology in 280 characters. For every x-day period (x=2-5 days) I took the lowest Tmax during that period as the temperature of the heat wave. I also took the average Tmax as the temperature of the heat wave. Then I took ...
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