On Jan 25, 7:20*pm, Frogwatch wrote:


Neither Roger nor NASA types must get outside much. *They actually
think it has been warm. *Rog, any chance they screwed up this data
too? *They have made it a habit.-

Whether "they" find it warm or not depends on a couple of other
questions, doesn't it?

Like - WHERE are we talking about?

And COMPARED TO WHAT is it warm or cold (or whatever)?

I presume Roger is talking about global temperature data, as averaged
by NASA. And the comparison is with average temperatures, globally,
for this time of the year, over the past 129 years.

This doesn't mean that the weather where YOU are, Frogwatch, is
necessarily going to be warmer than it was last year. We're talking
long-term global trends -- well, long term meaning going back for as
long as good temperature records have been kept, anyway. This might
not have much to do with whether the high in Cleveland on Dec. 18,
2008 was higher than the high in Cleveland on Dec. 18, 2007 or 2005.