There was a time that a large sector of the scientific community believed
the Earth was flat and the sun revolved around the Earth. They ostracized dissenting opinion just as they are doing now. The global warming crowd is a political movement.Science is fact,not concensus.

Could someone please tell me why these global warming "scientists" NEVER talk about heating degree-days? Well, they don't know what they are! Why is this subject important? Well please hear this very educated fellow out:

I am a physics educator whose chief hobby is proto-heating engineering. Basically, I'm an expert on 19th century type hot water and steam heating systems. If you own an old house with a steam heating system that's driving you crazy, I'm a fellow you'd want to consult with about tuning it up so it won't knock and bang and also to radically reduce your heating costs. Unfortunately, no major American university has offered any classes in this technology in the last 40 years, so people of my education are pretty damn hard to find, considering that just about every building in any American city built between 1850 and 1950 features such systems.

This sort of engineering was one of the first areas of thermal engineering developed way back in the early 1800's. Steam engines powered by steam boilers first hit the scene in the late 1700's; later by 1850 this technology was applied to the heating of buildings. Around 1869 John H. Mills patented numerous ideas that essentially surpassed building heating technology above that level perfected by Imperial Rome. Around the late 1870's to early 1880's hot water heating was developed and the Mills system was adapted to work on the circulation of hot water by the thermo-syphon system. This same system is STILL used by an estimated 700,000,000 Chinese to heat their buildings, so it certainly isn't obsolete.

One of the things you learn about in my area is how one can estimate fuel consumption using a non-metered fuel; i.e., coal. Since so many cities by the end of the 19th century adopted district steam heating and STILL use the same systems today, this was an item of critical importance. The delivery of coal was a very time consuming pastime considering the transportation technology of the time. Coal deliveries had to be planned very carefully, for if large amounts of coal had to be reordered in the depths of winter to re-supply the pile, a system operator might realize their running out of coal and an entire city freezing. A system had to be devised to plan ahead for fuel deliveries in the event more fuel was being used than was considered "normal"

The concept of the Heating-Degree Day was formulated to solve this problem. Every engineering manual even today has Heating-Degree Day Charts for just about EVERY American city. These charts aided a heating engineer in determining the amount of fuel consumed during an AVERAGE winter.

The various government weather offices actually calculate the Heating-Degree Days on a daily and monthly basis, and some of these stations have such records going back to the 1830's. As a result, a systems operating engineer could compare how their daily fuel consumption compared to the AVERAGES based on the AVERAGE Heating-Degree Day statistics provided by the weather offices.
For example, if there were an average of 400 heating-degree days for the month of December in the City of B.F.E., Maine, and your heating system supposedly used 1000 tons of coal based on that average for the month of December, you would keep a running tally of what the current degree-days were. Let's say there were 600 heating-degree days for the current December. You now would know that you really burned 1500 tons of coal, and that you would immediately need to order an extra 500 tons of coal to resupply the coal that you were supposed to burn later that winter. Simple enough.

Now it's time to make my point. I have seen so-called global warming charts and graphs that claim our average temperatures have increased by about 2 degrees Fahrenheit since the year 1900. This would thus result in 2 less degree-days per day, on average, over the span of the heating season, which typically runs about 180 days (you would have to run your furnace at least once a day during that time period). In other words, due to global warming, it should be easier and cheaper to heat a building, and on average there would be 360 fewer heating-degree days to contend with. There is a problem, however. THE CURRENT ENGINEERING HEATING-DEGREE DAY CHARTS ARE ESSENTIALLY NO DIFFERENT THAN THE ONES PRINTED IN BOOKS AROUND CIRCA A.D. 1900; they show NO decrease at all. ASHVAE (The American Society of Heating, Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning Engineers) has not made ANY announcements about updating these charts due to the supposed effects of global warming)In other words, global warming is non-existent. Nada!

Now, I know that this current crop of climate physicist "experts" are supposedly well educated, but how come NONE ever talks about this subject? Of course, as I stated earlier, these concepts haven't been taught at any major American college in at least 40 years!

Would someone care to discuss how actual REAL data collected during 100 years of temperature measurements does not agree with their THEORETICAL computer-generated models?

Would someone please tell me why various Governments are pouring over $200 Billion per year into this ficticious "science" when all one has to do is look at old records? If this is what they call "research" nowadays then I believe the public really needs to start asking questions as to what real benefit some of these colleges and universities are serving, other than to fill their own pockets and to act as pimps for their government benefactors who no doubt would love some sort of justification to levy more taxes upon us and control us even more. This is nothing more than rank, vile Stalinist corruption.