Since most of us are in the Northern Hemisphere does that makes us the one that is on top?

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Answer 1

lmao

best position in the WORLD.......... LMAO

Answer 2

Richie, As you requested, I’m providing an answer to this question. Although to be honest, will you be taking any notice of it? The fact that 2010 (so far) is the hottest year on record can’t be taken on it’s own merits as proof of anything; there are too many variables that can influence the temperatures over a single year. This year temps have been given a small boost by the effects of the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Early on in the year this was in a strong positive phase – El Nino, the warming part of ENSO. Of late we have entered a strong negative phase – La Nina, the cooling part. The strength of an ENSO episodes is measured on the Oceanic Nino Index or ONI. On this scale 0 is an average value, below minus 1 is a strong La Nina and above plus 1 is a strong ENSO. At the moment the ONI is minus 1.3, so it’s in a strong cooling phase. The year started at plus 1.7 so was a strong warming phase, overall the ONI for 2010 is plus 0.267 which means it’s a weak positive and therefore contributes a small amount of warming. It’s impossible to precisely adjust the temperature record to take account of the ENSO but we can get reasonably close. When we do this we find that 2010 drops from being the hottest year on record to the 4th hottest, coming behind 2009 ,2005 and 2006. Unadjusted, 2010 has an average global temperature of 14.6099°C but once the warming influence of ENSO is taken into account it drops to 14.5056°C. As I’ve stated many, many times, we need to look at longer term trends to identify what, if anything, is happening to global temperatures. To do this we need to look at periods of at least 10 years but ideally 30 years or more. By doing this anomalies such as ENSO, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and the Antarctic Oscillation (AAO) are balanced out – that is, the record will include several instances of both positive and negative episodes. If we look at the 10 year rolling averages we find that 2010 is the hottest year on record at 14.5313°C and in the 30 year record it’s again 2010, this time with a value of 14.4705°C. Using the 30 year rolling averages and therefore producing a trend free of short term anomalies, we see that every year since 1968 has been warmer than the preceding one. Faced with this evidence it’s impossible to refute the fact that the climate is warming. Using a 10 year rolling average the trend is still very apparent. The years do not get consecutively warmer but all ten of the hottest years on the record occur in the last 10 years (respectively from 2001 to 2010 inclusive, they are 10th, 8th, 7th, 9th, 6th, 5th, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 1st). It rally doesn’t matter what you do with the temperature records, no matter which record or combination of records are used, and no matter what start and end points are chosen, the trend is always the same. If 2010 does set a new temperature record (the probability of which is decreasing), will this prove that global warming is happening? No it won’t. Why? Because there are too many short term influences to infer anything from just a single year. - - - - - - As for your reference to ‘hide the decline’ and the fact that different records produce different results – this is due to the use of different base periods against which anomalies are measured, and to different analytical and recording techniques. The actual temperatures themselves are irrelevant, what matters is how the temperatures are changing over the years. Provided that the methodology remains the same the relative or absolute readings are of no concern, it’s the change that matters. You also go on about record breaking temperatures in 2010. The only records broken are minor ones such as – the coldest temp in place X in November, there are no records such as – the coldest temp ever recorded. To put it into context, so far in 2010 there have been 349 major all time high records broken, this is more than double the number of all time low records that have been set in the whole of the last decade. For every one cold record being broken there are six hot records (149 against 941).

Answer 3

It's only Northern Hemisphere by name. Somewhere, to other aliens, it may simply be the Western, Southern, or Eastern Hemisphere.

Answer 4

Not nessecerily, seeing as how we are floating around in space we are neither on top, bottom, nor side. That's pretty much the short story if you want to talk some more email me, I'm not going to post my email but you can email me if you click on me.

Answer 5

Chuck Norris is always on top, because Chuck Norris never fuqs UP

Answer 6

Well that means that Australia is on the bottom, doesn't matter i am happy and can make myself happy in whatever position i am put in.

Answer 7

Geographically, yes. Figuratively ... yes.

Answer 8

That makes us cowgirls or missionaries. Take your pick.

Answer 9

Yeah babe and that means that i am on the bottom.

Wow i am loving these questions.

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Answer 10

Yeah, right.