On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:56:59 -0700, Roger Coppock wrote:

I see from the less politicized *UAH data, it was the
coldest August since 2000.

But that isn't surface data, is it?

Any temperature data not taken on parking lots or near air conditioning
exhausts (like NASA Giss), and then not cherry picked for the stations
matching AGW theory best (like NASA Giss), will be good data.

Don't sweat it, August 2008 is number nineteen on UAH data too. So it
almost made the bottom ten in the last thirty years. No big sensational
warming news here. (You just love the sound of the words "thirty years",
don't you?)

Joern