Saturday, January 05, 2008
Have global temperatures reached a plateau?
John Wixted, a smart man who is not a climate scientist but who knows statistics, wonders whether global temperatures have reached a plateau. Along the way, he uncovers some anamolies in the press coverage of climate issues, including some moving of the goal posts.
9 Comments:
By 
, at
Sat Jan 05, 09:32:00 PM:
I have to doubt the validity of taking all the temperature measurements from all the stations and reducing them to just ONE temperature for the entire year then using that ONE number to make conclusions. But this is exactly what the global warming alarmists are doing. This is bad data modeling.
Not to mention....the data from the stations is suspect in many cases the stations are inappropriately placed near building, parking lots or on top of roofs, whereas the guidelines call for placement in a field. And as an electrical engineer I can tell you taking temperature measurements to the 0.00 precision is not easy and did these stations get calibrated regularly?
Any how, I wrote a series of blogs on it complete with pictures of weather stations, including one at an airport next to the arse of a jet turbine.
http://cttaxed.com/2007/08/14/how-not-to-measure-climate-change/
By , at
Sat Jan 05, 11:44:00 PM:
i have read in several places (not front page of course) that tempatures stopped rising 5-6 years ago.
By , at
Sun Jan 06, 01:18:00 AM:
I seem to remember a lot of global warming advocates saying that the 2006 hurricane season would be like nothing we'd ever seen before. What happened there, exactly?
By 
Miss Ladybug, at
Sun Jan 06, 02:16:00 AM:
My thoughts? We don't know what we don't know about all the different factors that affect climate. People that say the do, and that the debate is over are liars, or just bad scientists.
By , at
Sun Jan 06, 05:28:00 AM:
What are the error bars on this graph? Given the nature of the data, I don't think 1/10ths of degrees are meaningful. And I agree with Bob above that the concept of average global temperature has little or no meaning with respect to measuring climate change.
Owen Johnson
By , at
Sun Jan 06, 08:55:00 AM:
It seems all the rules and tools we were taught of the scientific method, somehow don't apply.
The NASA scientist who claimed Bush was "censoring" him, had a Y2k bug (divide by ZERO!) in his software program. Turns out the hottest year so far (if you buy the ONE temperature rule) was 1934, not 1998.
Don't you just hate it when a perfectly good theory is dashed by the facts?
By Steve M. Galbraith, at
Sun Jan 06, 08:01:00 PM:
the data from the stations is suspect in many cases the stations are inappropriately placed
Yes, but data is also acquired from satellite and balloon instruments.
And apparently, after correcting for errors that initially showed global cooling, those measurements also show global warming.
By , at
Sun Jan 06, 09:46:00 PM:
All the HOT AIR is comming from AL GORE and the wackos from GREENPEACE
By , at
Mon Jan 07, 10:49:00 PM:
A glass of ice water stays the same temperature a long time too. (For the really dense: that doesn't mean it's not warming.)
