On 30/01/2016 00:44, RW wrote:
On Saturday, 30 January 2016 07:27:08 UTC+13, JohnD wrote:
"Martin Dixon" wrote in message

The evidence that there has been no warming for 18 years according to
our most reliable sources of data.

Martin, I don't quite understand this peculiar fascination with 18 years -
presumably you're taking 1998 as a reference point. What happens if you take
eg 1996 or 1997 or 1999 as the reference instead? Could it be that there's
something very atypical about 1998? Wouldn't it make more sense to take the
mean temperature trend line through the 90's as at eg 1995 as the benchmark
if you wanted to look back over roughly a 20-year period to assess possible
warming/cooling over that period?

Dixon is talking nonsense. The warming trend over a lengthy period is unequivocal, and the "no warming since 1998" meme trotted out by many is simply false.

Jenkins knows he has painted himself into a corner, hence the conspiracy theory nonsense he and fellow travellers spout gets ever shriller.


It's the last bastion of the denier when all the 'evidence' they have
presented has been discredited they just claim that the evidence to the
contrary is all 'lies' and simply made up as part of some grand global
conspiracy. it's so desperate it's just laughable.
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