U.N. weather agency: 2015 hottest year on record

We'll soon set the coolest year on record with only 135 years of data.

We'll soon set the coolest year on record with only 135 years of data.

Actually, it is only 36 years, as the only reliable way to measure temperature is by satellite, and GISS records began in 1979.

But the cherry pickers at the UN still rely on surface temperature readings, and since the numbers of thermometers they use around the world has fallen by two-thirds over the past 4 or 5 decades, there is no way to determine a baseline.

Worse yet, they don't simply record the temperatures shown by the thermometers, each reading is subjected to a mathematical process to compensate for the local environment, and the formulas used for these calculations are changed almost every year, so in fact, we have not even a ghost's chance of knowing if 2015 is the hottest year on record.

And we still haven't seen winter yet, and since winters in 2013 and 2014 broke cold weather records, it is still far too early to say if 2015 will in fact be the hottest year on record. If this winter is as cold last the last two were, then 2015 will in fact not be the hottest year on record.

Lastly, if you look at the raw data from the UN's own source at the Hadley Climate Research Unit, 2015 is no warmer than the last 18 years were.

it's so cold in Tokyo right now. Can we borrow some of that global warming over here?

There are those who probably figure its just God fiddling with the thermostat. I hope you don't think I am kidding. That is seriously the sort of mentality we are up against.

The degree to which we have altered the Earth over the last 100 years is really quite amazing, unprecedented and startling. And even though we have altered and irrecoverably damaged several wide ranges of lands, most of us still can't see what we are doing to this planet. These changes we are seeing are not amazing in how drastic they are. What is amazing is how slight they are. On the one hand, it seems like we still have time to right things. On the other hand, far too many people think we can relax and keep doing what we do since despite all we have done, we have not managed to come to real worldwide strife yet.

More than 6 billion people are leeching off this planet. Never have there been so many farms. And farms are not forests, not remotely. Thinking farms can compensate for forests is like saying a walk down the street and back is the same exercise as a marathon and your heart will be fine and your weight will surely go down for that walk down the street. Or the latest exercise machine you got off of TV shopping will surely keep you fit instead. People are just as stupid in managing the planet as they are in managing their general health. And those 6 billion people are just getting more obese all the time you know.