On Apr 17, 10:16*pm, "V-for-Vendicar"
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"0NB0Z" wrote

Contaminated Temperature Data
Ross McKitrick, Financial Post

Meanwhile....

March the warmest on record over world land surfaces
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer April 18,2008

WASHINGTON - Planet Earth continues to run a fever. Last month was the
warmest March on record over land surfaces of the world and the second
warmest overall worldwide.

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According to UAH, 2008 was the coldest March in the 21st century,
confirming McKitrick and de Laat's conclusions about the
unreliability of GISS and IPCC-

http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/t2lt/tltglhmam_5.2
- A. McIntire

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According to UAH, 2008 was the coldest March in the 21st century,
confirming McKitrick and de Laat's conclusions about the
unreliability of GISS and IPCC-

NCDC: Climate of 2008 - March
DOC NOAA NESDIS NCDC Search Field:
Climate Monitoring / Climate of 2008 / March / Help


Climate of 2008
March in Historical Perspective

National Climatic Data Center

Major Highlights
NOAA: 2nd Warmest March on Record for Globe
Global Land Surface Temperature Warmest on Record

The average global temperature (land and ocean surface combined) for last
month
was the 2nd warmest on record for March, while the average temperature for
the
contiguous U.S. was near average (ranking the 63rd warmest), according to an
analysis by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.
....

The global surface (land and ocean surface) temperature was the 2nd warmest
on
record for March in the 129-year record, 1.28° F (0.71° C) above the 20th
century mean of 54.9° F (12.7° C). The warmest March on record (+1.33°
F/0.74°
C) occurred in 2002.

The global land surface temperature was the warmest on record for March,
3.3° F
(1.8° C) above the 20th century mean of 40.8° F (5.0° C). Temperatures more
than
8° F above average covered much of the Asian continent. Two months after the
greatest January snow cover extent on record on the Eurasian continent, the
unusually warm temperatures led to rapid snow melt, and March snow cover
extent
on the Eurasian continent was the lowest on record.

Although the ocean surface average was only the 13th warmest on record, as
the
cooling influence of La Niña in the tropical Pacific continued, much warmer
than
average conditions across large parts of Eurasia helped push the global
average
to a near record high for March.

Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent was the fourth lowest on record for
March,
remaining consistent with boreal spring conditions of the past two decades,
in
which warming temperatures have contributed to anomalously low snow cover
extent.

Some weakening of La Niña, the cold phase of the El Niño-Southern
Oscillation,
occurred in March, but moderate La Niña conditions remained across the
tropical
Pacific Ocean.