Replies

I prefer to go directly to the source of the data

University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH)

Remote Sensing System (RSS)

Anyone that wishes to engage in an honest discussion on AGW admits that a slight warming is occurring. One can of course cherry pick a data set and get the desired outcome. Torture the data long enough and it will confess to any sin you want. However if you cherry pick your data no one will take you seriously on the subject.

The image you used picked has as it's start date the year with the strongest El Nino on record which lead to an unusually high global temperature. An alarmist would (cherry) pick a chilly 1985 as a start date and thus the data would confess to a rapidly warming climate. Neither represents reality, the reality is the climate has been very stable for the past 200 years, sometimes slightly warming and sometimes slightly cooling. On the millennial scale the climate is on a long term cooling trend with ups, Roman Warm Period and downs, Little Ice Age.

You would be wise to stop blindly accepting what ever you favorite politician says as the gospel and spend a little time investigating things for your self.

So who do you support with a perfect record?
Sorry a degree or three up or down in 18 years is nothing.
Cruz is the best it gets.

Anyone that wishes to engage in an honest discussion on AGW admits that a slight warming is occurring. One can of course cherry pick a data set and get the desired outcome. Torture the data long enough and it will confess to any sin you want. However if you cherry pick your data no one will take you seriously on the subject.

Wow. You sound like an Obama/Al Gore troll. I simply said that over the last almost 19 years there has been zero warming and you post leftist slime to me about cherry picking data.

The fact is I didn't cherry pick the peak of an El Nino for a starting point which was mid '98. The starting point in the graph is 2 1/2 years before the El Nino peak when the temperatures was colder at the start of 1996. Add to that, the point we are at now is roughly the peak of the latest El Nino and not 2 1/2 years before, which would actually increase the bias toward warming.

I bet you that goes right over your head so I will repeat it again. The starting point of the graph is a colder 2 1/2 years before an El Nino peak, and the end point is at or maybe about a month before an El Nino peak.

As I pointed out to you, over the last almost 19 years, there has been zero warming.

BTW, why did you cherry pick 1979. Nobody is disputing that there was an increase in global temperature from 1979 to 1996. The claim is that there was no global warming starting in 1996. So to post a graph starting in 1979 to prove that there was some global warming starting in 1996 is not very smart.