Roger Coppock wrote:

To confirm what several other people posted,
the continental USA is warming faster than the
rest of the globe.

According to the satellite Microwave Sounding
Unit data from Remote Sensing Systems, the globe
from 82 degrees North to 70 degrees South
latitude warmed at 1.8 K per century, while the
continental USA warmed at 2.8K per
century. (RSS avoids a known problem MSU that
occurs when the microwave beam reflects off ice
surfaces by excluding the poles.)

Classic global warming theory from Arrhenius
predicts greater warming rates in dry areas like
the American West and heartland than more most
regions.

But Roger, the great drought has occurred in the
Southeast; you know, the region of the US that
has more USHCN stations showing a negative slope
indicating cooling.

The West has had a LOT of snow this year and the
Midwest has had flooding. Maybe your San Diego
area is different.


These lower troposphere data come from the third
and ninth columns of:


http://www.remss.com/data/msu/monthl...cean_v03_1.txt

Though the continental USA is only about 1.5% of
the globe's area, there are more than enough
data to support this statement.


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Call:
lm(formula = LaN825S700 ~ YEARMON)

Residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-0.41589 -0.11629 -0.00948 0.10907 0.73922

Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(|t|)
(Intercept) -35.1291 2.2028 -15.9 2e-16
***
YEARMON 0.0177 0.0011 16.0 2e-16
*** ---
Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05
'.' 0.1 ' ' 1

Residual standard error: 0.175 on 349 degrees of
freedom
Multiple R-Squared: 0.423, Adjusted R-squared:
0.421
F-statistic: 255 on 1 and 349 DF, p-value:
2e-16

- - - -

fitted.model - lm(ContUSA ~ YEARMON)
summary(fitted.model)

Call:
lm(formula = ContUSA ~ YEARMON)

Residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-3.0723 -0.4895 0.0287 0.5624 2.2018

Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value
Pr(|t|)
(Intercept) -55.26373 10.64006 -5.19
3.5e-07 ***
YEARMON 0.02779 0.00534 5.21
3.3e-07 *** ---
Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05
'.' 0.1 ' ' 1

Residual standard error: 0.844 on 349 degrees of
freedom
Multiple R-Squared: 0.0721, Adjusted R-squared:
0.0694
F-statistic: 27.1 on 1 and 349 DF, p-value:
3.29e-07