Sounds like he's on hormone therapy or someone's slipping estrogens into his morning tea.
I really have a hard time with this global warming stuff. I remember seeing a long-term graph of earth's climate where a regular temperature cycle shows up every, what, 100,000 years?
It's getting harder and harder to find that graph, and yeah, that long term data can be challeneged on a number of grounds, since the temperatures were inferred from lots of other things.
But nevertheless, that cycle kept showing up through megayears (Ma), regardless of how the actual temperature data was inferred. There it was, again and again and again. It was a noisy-looking graph, with lots of short term perturbations, but every umpteen kiloyears,there was that unmistakeable spike again.
So here we are, with actual temperature readings over the last what, 200 years or so, and somebody imputed a "hockey-stick" hook showing a sudden upward trend, and that seems to cause a lot of concern, but this data is only from a very short, very recent, albeit more accurate, sample of global temperatures.
So we start hand-wringing about this short but accurate sample and seem to be ignoring two facts, (1) that the long-term but less accurate record shows a fairly regular cycle of large temperature cycles, and (2) that even these long-term cycles are pretty noisy, showing lots of irregularities superimposed on the long-term cycles.
So it seems to me that getting all panicky about recent temperature upswings is sort of silly becuase we simply don't have an adequate sample --it's too short a time.
And wasn't it only 30 or 40 years ago that climatologists, basing their thinking on that long-term sample, were predicting that we were heading into a new ice age?
Seems to me if that's the case, we ought to be pumping as much CO2 into the air as possible to warm things up a bit ahead of any new Ice Age.
So I have a hard time with all this "hockey stick" hand-wringing stuff. We may well just be in one of those upward perturbations superimposed on a real, regular, inevitable downward temperature swing.
I sure wish I could find that long-term graph again, though.
Terry