It is far more than a few. The image below is from Watt's survey of US weather stations. 77% of them have an error in excess of 1 degree C.
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Posted on 12/28/2007 12:40:59 PM PST by neverdem
We set about vacuuming the air in 1970 and have now succeeded in removing almost 98% of the pollutants then commonly discharged on a daily basis; all that while, CO2 continued to build up unabated until now we see the world either through a glass less darkly or so clearly, we don’t know what to make of it.
The last ten years have seen an exponential increase in China and, to some extent, India, the two most populous emerging industrial powers.
Could it be that they are unintentionally or carelessly adding back in the aerosols that work to mitigate warming?
It is far more than a few. The image below is from Watt's survey of US weather stations. 77% of them have an error in excess of 1 degree C.
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Bump!
Lol, I saved that Time gif the minute I saw it, scrolled down and you already had posted it!
My last response on this subject. Believe what you need to believe, whether or not it's correct.
The paper you cite concentrates on the period from 1800-present. However it still doesn’t dispute the fact that the “hockey stick” has magically made the Medieval Warm Period disappear.
Read this article to see why it went away:
http://www.climatechangeissues.com/files/PDF/conf05mckitrick.pdf
(hint: it went away because it was inconvenient. The money quote: “A major person working in the area of climate change and global warming sent me an astonishing email that said ‘We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period.’”)
Indeed, you do.
This last is offered with trepidation, because it gets into the "Hockey Stick" controversy. I offer it because of the references and brief summary on pages 17-22, and only that.
Examining the Hockey Stick Controversy (PDF)
Doesn't sound like it disappeared; it's more like it became less distinct. One of the clearest problems is the persistence in the public mind and on skeptical Web sites of the 1990 IPCC "cartoon" (page 14), which was not quantitative and not even apparently based on any actual data analysis (more of a summary of existing anecdotal knowledge).
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