The supply of morons who do not know the
difference between local weather and global
climate endless. P.T. Barnum claimed that
one is born every minute.

On Oct 6, 10:40*am, "tvor" wrote:
"Roger Coppock" wrote in message

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The satellite record, in all its current interpretations,
shows that the air near the surface is warming.
For background on the satellite temperature proxy please see:

Boy I hope so!! *I don't know if some people around here are going to be
able to afford to heat their homes this winter!

One winter season "around here" is not a large
enough sample for a climate trend.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satelli...e_measurements

The URL below is one of the more conservative records
from the University of Alabama at Huntsville.

http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/public/m.../tltglhmam_5.2

The global data given above are graphed he

http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/UAH-MSU.jpg

The regression statistics for the line in the graph above
are below.

Coefficients:
* * * * * * Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(|t|)
(Intercept) -25.4841 * *2.2049 * -11.6 * 2e-16
YEARMON * * * 0.01281 * *0.00111 * *11.6 * 1.47e-26

Residual standard error: 0.18 on 356 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-Squared: 0.274
F-statistic: *134 on 1 and 356 DF, *p-value: 1.47e-26