The 329th consecutive month of hot temperature adjustments
As far as I can tell, the NOAA/USHCN hasn’t updated this chart since 2000.
You can always sift through statistics to find something out of the ordinary.
This is especially true when you control the statistics. For example,
July was the fourth-warmest such month on record globally, and the 329th consecutive month with a global-average surface temperature above the 20th-century average, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC).
However,
Actually, 864th, but matching the numbers sounds better. It’s all a matter of what statistics you choose to look at. But, as I said in July, you don’t get to make predictions in hindsight; you don’t get to choose the measurements afterwards. The most important part of this chart isn’t that the numbers are being adjusted upward, it’s that they’re being adjusted differently every year.
In response to I believe in Global Warming (and other conversion stories): Conversion stories aren’t meant to convert skeptics; they’re a bonding tale for the converted. They’re also a sign of a religion; science needs theories that make predictions about both what happens when they’re right and how to falsify them if they’re wrong. Proof for human-caused global warming is always in the past. Whatever happened last month or last year proves global warming. No application of the scientific method can ever disprove it because hindsight is 20/20.
- GHCN Global Gridded Data
- Look at the adjustments listed, and one thing that has to pop out is how subjective many of them are. I’m sure they have very math-filled formulas behind them, but the choice of formula is going to require a lot of hand-waving.
- July was also the 329th consecutive month of upwards adjustment to the U.S. temperature record: Anthony Watts at Watts Up With That?
- “It isn’t hard to stay above the average temperature value when your adjustments outpace the temperature itself. There’s about 0.45°C of temperature rise in the adjustments since about 1940.”
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- I believe in Global Warming (and other conversion stories)
- Conversion stories aren’t meant to convert skeptics; they’re a bonding tale for the converted. They’re also a sign of a religion; science needs theories that make predictions about both what happens when they’re right and how to falsify them if they’re wrong. Proof for human-caused global warming is always in the past. Whatever happened last month or last year proves global warming. No application of the scientific method can ever disprove it because hindsight is 20/20.
- Lord Christopher Monckton in San Diego
- I went to see the Americans Protecting Private Property Rights presentation by Lord Christopher Monckton about the economic and scientific fallacies of the anthropogenic global warming movement last night. It was mostly stuff I’ve seen before, mainly from the climategate emails and software leak.
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- If unknown data tracks known bad data, it’s a good guess there’s something wrong with the unknowns as well.
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