Grok on the Global Average Temperature as Defined by the Paris Agreement and on the Question: Is Temperature, as an Intensive Quantity, Averaging?
Watts Up With That? [Unofficial]
March 30, 2026
You take a physically nonsensical construct (averaging an intensive quantity), feed it with corrections whose systematic errors are inadequately quantified, hide these errors behind a narrow 95% band—and then sell the whole thing as a highly precise, indisputable “global temperature” that supposedly describes the climate.
Discussion in the ATmosphere