birdog wrote:


Havn't I read any number of times that there has been no warming since
1998? Every time I have read it on this NG, it has been thoroughly and
convencingly rebutted with "It's a lie!" We are fortunate to have so many
climate experts among the posters.

No, it's not a lie, it's perfectly true - as long as you only compare 1998
with 2006 and ignore all the other years. In other words, carefully select
your data to prove a point. 2006 was 0.05C cooler than 1998 but 2005 was
0.36C warmer than 1997. Better to smooth out the lumps and bumps in the
data. If you do that, you'll find that global temperatures are rising by a
little over 0.2C per decade. If you go back to the last peak in global
temperatures, the 1940s, you'll see that we are now about 0.6C warmer than
then.

Have a look at the data at
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata/GLB.Ts.txt and see for
yourself.

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Graham P Davis
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