On Feb 29, 5:58 am, Alan Peake wrote:
V-for-Vendicar wrote:
Global average temperatures from the NCDC.

1989 0.2087

etc.
Are these temps degrees K,C,F or what?
Or, are they variations from some average and if so, what?
Alan

Alan, they are deviations from an arbitrary value (the mean
temperature over an arbitrary time frame). In kelvin/celsius. Part
of the fun is figuring out what the different sources are pretending
is normal. see, clearly they couldn't all just use their actual mean
temps, cause then the fact that they disagree about the actual
temperature by amounts greater than the deviations would be obvious.

This thread is fun, you've got a couple of the more blithering deniers
trying to pretend that a 1 year drop is a trend, and the most idiotic
AGW zealots trying to claim that the cooling didn't happen despite the
fact that every source confirms it.

Cherry-picking in a rather extreme fashion, it is possible to
statistically show a significant cooling trend between 1998 and
january of 2008.

http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com...ast-12-months/

bill wrote:
On Feb 29, 5:58 am, Alan Peake wrote:
V-for-Vendicar wrote:
Global average temperatures from the NCDC.
1989 0.2087
etc.
Are these temps degrees K,C,F or what?
Or, are they variations from some average and if so, what?
Alan

Alan, they are deviations from an arbitrary value (the mean
temperature over an arbitrary time frame). In kelvin/celsius. Part
of the fun is figuring out what the different sources are pretending
is normal. see, clearly they couldn't all just use their actual mean
temps, cause then the fact that they disagree about the actual
temperature by amounts greater than the deviations would be obvious.

This thread is fun, you've got a couple of the more blithering deniers
trying to pretend that a 1 year drop is a trend, and the most idiotic
AGW zealots trying to claim that the cooling didn't happen despite the
fact that every source confirms it.

Cherry-picking in a rather extreme fashion, it is possible to
statistically show a significant cooling trend between 1998 and
january of 2008.

http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com...ast-12-months/


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