The graph published on my previous post reminds me of the most niggling fact about the climate change myth and it is this idea, widely promulgated, about a global temperature.

Remember that in the Middle Ages (i.e. late 1970's) I trained as a Chemical Engineer so I have a pretty good understanding of the dynamics of energy transfer in complex and changing systems.

The one niggling thing about all of this– apart from the total inappropriateness of using a single temperature to indicate the climate of a system as big, variable and complex as the Earth– is this: El Nino.

If you look at the peaks and troughs on the graph you will see that the measured temperature is affected by El Nino (when it goes up) and La Nina (when it goes down). The current La Nina event is the cause of the floods and cyclones in Eastern Australia over the last few months.

El Nino and La Nina in no way affect the amount of heat in the earth. They represent changes in the distribution of the heat- one place gets colder and another warmer.

It's like blowing on a thermostat or peeing in the pool. The total heat content doesn't change but some places get warmer locally.

YET, this redistribution of heat shows up in the overall "temperature" of the planet.

That tells me two things:

1. A single measurement of "average temperature" is totally meaningless
2. We aren't even measuring temperature correctly

We are being led by the nose by people who call themselves scientists yet do not understand science, by politicians and by noisy activists into a future of ever-escalating energy costs to fight a problem that probably doesn't exist.