"joe six pack" wrote:

"Roger Coppock" wrote in message
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Here's a great graphic of global yearly mean temperatures,
their error bounds, and their chronological decades from the
Met Office: Please see:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporat...pr20071213.gif

Plenty of global warming on our planet!
It definitely is not slowing down, either.

How can you say it's not slowing down since 1998?

Using anomalies is claimed to avoid certain errors,
but it also allows some hanky panky and some delusions
to seem realistic.

To prove there is something wrong with the process
of averaging or the method used, I offer to reconsider my
opinion if _ONLY_ the maximums are averaged and compared
to a baseline, and make the baseline as antique as reasonable,
I am not convinced there is any higher average maximums,
and it is silly to claim warming if it is only the minimums that
have not been as low because of cloudy nights.

The fact that cloud cover can distort a single day's
average, while a cloudless night may just result in a normal
minimum, is a clear distortion of the purpose of the endeavor.

This is even if there is no doctoring done to perpetuate
grants and budgets.