Alastair McDonald wrote:
"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
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Lawrence13 wrote:
On Monday, 20 May 2013 21:25:28 UTC+1, Alastair wrote:

Ah! at last: even you accept cooling is setting in.

Don't put words in my mouth. There is no global cooling! Temperatures may
have steadied but that could be only a forerunner to a sharp rise.

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I don't take too much notice of all this but I find the semantics
interesting. Rather than rate of change, if the absolute temperature of
one year is less than the previous year then it's cooled slightly and if
the absolute value has risen from the previous year it has warmed. I'm not
say this means anything in the important matter of long term trends but
the wording would be factual I guess?

Yes. The sceptics choose 1998 as the start year and the Hadley record
because no other year since then has exceeded that one in the Hadley record.
The Hadley record ignores the Arctic because it does not have enough data
from there, but the Arctic is where most of the warming is happening.

There is a huge undercover propoaganda machine financed by the US oil and
coal industries mixing facts and smears to discredit the science.

Lawrence's jibe is typical.

Cheers, Alastair.




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You may have missed my point slightly. I think I am saying that if no
year in the Hadley record is warmer than 1998 then in plain English, for
that measurement, it is cooler. This does not mean other areas are
cooling or that GW is reversed but it does mean that!
Dave