WHO WINS THE RACE FOR WARMEST YEAR?

[louise]

from www.drroyspencer.com/

"As far as the race for warmest year goes, 1998 (+0.424 deg. C) barely edged out 2010 (+0.411 deg. C), but the difference (0.01 deg. C) is nowhere near statistically significant. So feel free to use or misuse those statistics to your heart’s content."

"Since 1979, NOAA satellites have been carrying instruments which measure the natural microwave thermal emissions from oxygen in the atmosphere. The signals that these microwave radiometers measure at different microwave frequencies are directly proportional to the temperature of different, deep layers of the atmosphere. Every month, John Christy and I update global temperature datasets that represent the piecing together of the temperature data from a total of eleven instruments flying on eleven different satellites over the years. As of early 2011, our most stable instrument for this monitoring is the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU-A) flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite and providing data since late 2002."

No UHI effect in space

[rsmith7]

How about 998?
Or 7,862,549BC

Grow up.

[marchesarosa]

Warmist Schwarmist! The important question is WHY.

CO2 just doesn't cut it.

[principled]

Hold on to your hats, climate change can ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/8262919/Climate-change-may-be-responsible-for-the-rise-and-fall-of-Roman-empire-scientists-find.html

The cause is yet to be ascertained, but having ruled out the burning of fossil fuels for producing electricity, scientists are now concentrating on the methane from the horses pulling the chariots.
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[Progenitor A]

Jan 13, 2011 20:34:24 GMT 1 @louise said:

from www.drroyspencer.com/

"As far as the race for warmest year goes, 1998 (+0.424 deg. C) barely edged out 2010 (+0.411 deg. C), but the difference (0.01 deg. C) is nowhere near statistically significant. So feel free to use or misuse those statistics to your heart’s content."

"Since 1979, NOAA satellites have been carrying instruments which measure the natural microwave thermal emissions from oxygen in the atmosphere. The signals that these microwave radiometers measure at different microwave frequencies are directly proportional to the temperature of different, deep layers of the atmosphere. Every month, John Christy and I update global temperature datasets that represent the piecing together of the temperature data from a total of eleven instruments flying on eleven different satellites over the years. As of early 2011, our most stable instrument for this monitoring is the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU-A) flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite and providing data since late 2002."

No UHI effect in space

Perhaps it would be statistically significant though if the difference was +0.013 degrees?

[louise]

Jan 17, 2011 12:26:13 GMT 1 Progenitor A said:

Perhaps it would be statistically significant though if the difference was +0.013 degrees?

As Dr Roy Spencer does not believe that man can/has influenced global temperatures then no - I do not think it would be statistically significant if it was +0.013 degrees.

[marchesarosa]

Principled
Victoria Ward, in The Telegraph article you linked to, wrote"

"Scientists discovered that periods of warm, wet weather coincided with prosperity while dry or varying conditions occurred at times of political turmoil, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the Thirty Years' War."

Well, well, well! Who'd have thought that warmer epochs coincided with prosperity and social stability!

What a difference a few decades of ideological dominance makes to the intellectual scene! Not all that long ago climatologists shamelessly referred to the "Holocene Climate Optimum" as their benchmarch for measuring temperature change.