To my dear convenient idiot friends. You know, the ones who think that Climate Change is a ‘belief’ rather than fact. The ones that ignore scientists in favour of their far-right political activists with vested interests.
I’m sorry if that name, ‘convenient idiot’ was a bit harsh, but, it does seem to be warranted when all you need to do is do this.
1. type (without the quotes) “https://copilot.microsoft.com/chats/“.
2. In the box where it says Message Copilot type “what is the 100 year trend in average yearly maximum temperatures in Mar-a-Lago”.
3. as a follow-up ask “over those 100 years, has Mar-a-Lago had greater variations in maxiumum temperatures?
Had DJ Trump done that, he would have found that, and I quote from today’s response “
There has indeed been an increase in temperature variability in the region. Over the last 100 years, maximum temperatures have shown more significant fluctuations, especially in recent decades. This is consistent with global and regional climatic trends where increased temperature variations are observed as part of the ongoing climate change impacts.
In the Florida region, including areas like Mar-a-Lago, more frequent and intense heatwaves, along with other temperature extremes, have contributed to greater temperature variability.
You can verify this for yourselves by getting annual data from BOM, CSIRO, NOAA or similar. I use a popular site called “Extreme Weather Watch’ as it’s easier to navigate and download data that the official sites quoted above. I get the annual average maximums (and minimums) and use excel to plot a trend curve. The trend curve will confirm the output from Co-Pilot above. For my city:
If you issue a command like “Copilot – can you give me a copyable csv link instead”, co-pilot will allow you to easily copy and paste a csv formatted text.
It’s been a pleasure educating you today. With these tools you’ve graduated from ‘convenient idiot’ to a bright enquiring mind. No need to thank me. I’m glad to have helped my community out.
Leave a Reply