Weather Banter - View Single Post - The Idsos' co2science web site has an error in the MSU data calculation page

Roger Coppock

(Eric Swanson) wrote in message ...
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Eric, this is the website of a CEE-OH-TOO 'scientist' are you sure
that Idso isn't using degrees when he should use radians ;-)

Well, they do mention in their GRL paper with Robert Balling that they
adjust their data for area by using the cosine function...

Seriously, you should get your data directly from NASA or UAH,
anything from a fossil fool website is suspect. Look at what Idso
does with USHCN data, he throws away three or four decades of
data, ignores important corrections, and presents it one cherry
picked site at a time.

Actually, I did get my data from UAH, when I worked on my GRL paper,(which
you may recall). That's how I know the MSU LT data is limited to a range of
82.5S to 82.5N latitude. And, I noticed the spike in the high latitude SH
data in the UAH data at the same time. However, as I have no way to question
the accuracy of that data, I've not mentioned it before, except in a limited
way. I suppose one could test for the spike in the sonde data, however, I
also noticed that it appears to be centered over the West Antarctic Ice Sheet,
where there are no sonde stations......

This cancerous old man is running around with puss for brains (literally),
but he does remember reading a recent posting on this forum about MSU
measurement problems with reflections from ice fields. I don't remember
reading that S&C had fixed this problem.