On Mar 5, 8:04*pm, Dawlish wrote:
On Mar 3, 10:04*am, Dawlish wrote:

RSS first out with an anomaly of +0.588C. 2nd warmest February in the
31-year squence to 1998. Still very warm globally.

UAH follows with an anomaly of +0.61C. Same as RSS in that it is the
2nd warmest, in their 31-year sequence, to Feb 1998. A very warm month
by the 2 satellite measures. The ground-based measures will be out
from around mid-month. Any comments and explanations from sceptics
would be good.

Why is it so warm?

You know, I wondered why the UAH figure was only the second warmest in
the sequence after such high temperatures had shown on the daily
updates throughout February. It's now clear. Roy Spencer has adjusted
his February figures downwards because of errors creeping into his
figures. It has reduced the February figure from +0.74C to +0.61C.
Spencer does say that this will result in a redistribution of values,
rather than a reduction and it is more in line with RSS as a result.

http://www.drroyspencer.com/

At the same time, another sceptic, appears to be under some pressure
to retract some of his claims:

http://tamino.wordpress.com/2010/03/...anthony-watts/