"Natsman" wrote in message
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On 9 Jun, 09:18, Bob Martin wrote:
in 31505 20080609 000021 "Eric Ingham"
wrote:

Andrew Neill - a respected journalist - stated on his BBC lunchtime
show on,
I think, Thursday, that "Average global temperatures have fallen in
each of
the last ten years by an average of 0.3 degrees C". He quoted four
sources
including NASA.

.... it's a case of the old journalistic rule: " never let the facts
get in the way of a good story ": see this graph, which is, note, a
NASA based dataset and is widely respected:-

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2.lrg.gif

1998 was an oddity in some respects, due to the strength of the El
Nino (warm) event that year - the overall trend is upwards - see also
the particular figures he-

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata/GLB.Ts.txt

Martin.

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