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320. Climate Science: What Does it Say? | Dr. Richard Lindzen

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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How Do You Average Mount Everest With the Dead Sea?

How do you average Mount Everest with the Dead Sea? Well, I'm curious about that. How is that done? Like to think of the Earth as having one temperature. Okay. So you're making the case there that the mean is the crucial variable, right? That's really what it boils to. Well, it's saying that, but it's hard to tell how you get it. They don't get it by averaging. What they do is take each station, take a 30-year average and look at the deviation of the temperature from that average. The data points are scattered over 20 degrees. And if you chose any given period of time, any moment, there are almost

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