Email, David Zierden, state climatologist, Florida, June 9, 2017

7:48 a.m.

Just be sure to make it clear that we are talking about global averaged temperature.  Reducing an infinitely complicated climate system, which includes the atmosphere (all levels), oceans, land surfaces, and ice surfaces, to ONE number per month or year is quite an oversimplification.

Thanks,

David Zierden