On Thursday 30 Dec 2010 10:01, Dawlish scribbled:

On Dec 29, 10:09 pm, "Lawrence Jenkins" wrote:
At first I thought this was a mistake, a quirk, but no there seems to
have been a remarkable plunge in the near surface temperature
recordhttp://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/execute.csh?amsutemps

It is now lower for the 28th December 2010 than at any time since 1998;
that is some drop that I've seen no one else predict bar Joe who has been
proclaiming this would happen since this time last year. Surely he
deserves some praise and not the petty treatment he gets here on many an
occasion.

????

Amazing. A superb performance. Lawrence too. Global temperatures
always fall towards December. Well done to Joe for predicting it and
Lawrence for thinking it means something. No-one else saw that annual
fall coming either. Terrific!!

laughing

BTW. Here's the actual near-surface AMSU-A temperatures. Nowhere near
"a remarkable plunge" and December's UAH figures will be out in a few
days time and will comfirm that. I think Lawrence has been at the
funny stuff over Christmas. *))

http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutem...?amsutemps+001

To be fair to Lawrence, he is correct in saying that there is a remarkable
fall on the near-surface graph (ch04), but as it's only happened over the
past few days it does look like desperation - or a leg-pull perhaps? - to
draw the conclusions he does. Difference between 2009 and 2010 was -0.08C on
the 25th and -0.89C on the 28th, the latest day for which data is available.
Heck of a drop!


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