Roger Coppock wrote:
Then please take us step-by-step through the lag-one auto-correlation
of the data set and produce your estimate of the number of degrees of
freedom. The URL to the data set was listed in my original post, the
part you snipped.

Why me? I'm not the one asserting that global warming is
99.999999999999999999999999999999% Certain!

Personally, I don't think it should make much difference to reasonable
people whether it's 99.999999999999999999999999999999% certain or merely
99% certain. And the latter claim will be far easier to prove without
the help of questionable assumptions.


As the snipped part of my original post said, the land data used were
corrected for the Urban Heat Island effect; the sea data did not need
to be.

Fair enough. Not sure how accurately the magnitude of the heat island
effect is even known, though. I'm 99.9999% certain, however, that it's
not known with 99.999999999999999999999999999999% confidence.