Or theories that reduce the entire planets climate system to a single stupid global average temperature...
Why do you think a single average temperature for the Earth's climate is "stupid"?
If you were studying the Earth's accumulation of solar energy, by what parameter would you judge the ongoing process and how would you communicate your results to the public?
It's stupid because
YOU think it's so brilliant.. How's that?
You REALLY need help with this? 5000 journal articles FOCUSED on this ONE NUMBER?
1) Do you think the Earth has JUST ONE climate zone?
2) Is the heating and distribution of that heat the SAME IMPORTANCE in every geo location?
3) Is Climate ONLY TEMPERATURE??
4) What does that single number tells us about HOW the ******* Climate Works?
5) In what months of the year does 0.65degC anomaly MATTER to the Polar climate?
6) Would a "global average" tell you ANYTHING about the EFFECT of temperature on the climate of particular region?
7) Could you miss EXTEMELY IMPORTANT climate changing events and trends in Ocean Currents looking at a Global Average?
8) Does a single number help you to understand the interplay of thermal storages, thermal delays and major pathways?
9) Does a Globally AVERAGED "climate sensitivity" even make sense? ((Definately not))
10) Does a Globally AVERAGED "cloud cover" tell you very much about feedback effects of cloud formation?
11) Does a GLOBALLY AVERAGED convection forcing function tell you much about climate changes to the weather?
12) Does a GLOBALLY AVERAGED "cyclonic energy" tell you anything about forecasting hurricanes?
13) Even a GLOBALLY AVERAGED CO2 content of the atmos doesn't tell you what the SURFACE FORCING function at the North Pole or Equator is.. ((Yes Virginia, CO2 surface heating varies AROUND THE GLOBE))
14) Does ANY KIND OF AVERAGED temperature predict changes in weather patterns?
15) Would a GLOBALLY AVERAGED solar forcing function number help me figure out how heat moves from tropics to poles or to deeper waters?
One freaking number REMOVES all the information content about how the climate works. It is the foundation of modern Climate Science simply BECAUSE it's a public outreach tool. It's not there for any valid scientific reason...
Tell me if you're still fuzzy on the ludicrous obsessions of your climate scientists..
If you still need me to explain what I WOULD prefer -- we could do that. I want to know WHAT DRIVES the climate.. And it's NOT JUST the Mean Annual Surface Temperature.
I want to know WHERE ON THE GLOBE the ocean is recieving the most heat. I want to know HOW LONG IT TAKES for surface heat to make it to 500 meters deep. I want to know WHEN EXACTLY ice will melt in the Arctic Ocean. Ad nauseum..
Is that too much to ask??? To spend LESS TIME globally averaging the temperature of 10,000 years ago? Or TODAY???