"Dawlish" wrote in message
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On Jan 15, 6:56 pm, "Lawrence Jenkins" wrote:
"Dawlish" wrote in message

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On Jan 15, 6:17 pm, Dawlish wrote:

After the satellite measures, UAH and RSS, both at 4th warmest in
their 30-year sequence, the first of the land-based measures is out.
NOAA has December as the 8th warmest December in its 130 year record.
What prevented it being warmer still was the Northern Hemisphere's
unusual cold. The outcome anomaly figure of +0.49C makes December the
coldest December since....2008!

"The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for
December 2009 was 0.49°C (0.88°F) above the 20th century average of
12.2°C (54.0°F). This is the eighth warmest December on
record." (NOAA).

NOAA also has the year, Jan-Dec, as the 5th warmest on record.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/?repor...month=12&submi...

Do you mean this NOAA

http://www.accuweather.com/video-on-...001&chan...one
that Joe accuses of rewriting past temperature records ?

I do mean that NOAA and unfounded accusations from such a source are
hardly going to pass muster when the NOAA record shows good agreement
with the two other land based records and the two satellite records.
All that does is show Joe *******i up. Unless of course you'd like to
say they are all wrong, in which case you are in conspiratorial la la
land.

On the contrary he had to go to an obscure Australian site to get the facts