For my last CoSy Midwinter party in Rochester NY ( See Language/CoSyEvolution I happened to plot
the relationship between the position of the sun and the mean temperature
thru the year as noted in the invitation below . I`ll admit I didn`t work
out the precise geometry of insolation at any particular temperate latitude
based on season , just used a pure sine as a first approximation . So ,
it was interesting to see that the mean historic temperature differed from
the sine by only about .04 of total variance .
The temperature data is actually monthly data from Buffalo NY which is
the closest place I could find data for . As I remember , it represented
about the first half of the century . It is interesting to see how regular
it ends up being on average .
Note also , that the temperature lags the amount of insolation by only a
couple of weeks . How , given this small inertia , could any effect of
change of atmospheric composition take decades to show up as "greenhouse
gases" are claimed to ?
