[ConservativeMind]

Ping of interest. NASA’s temperature data is now considered fraudulent.

I don’t know what brings so many things to light in the past week. As you know, I rarely send a ping.

[expatpat]

Not only the data of NASA/GISS but also that of NOAA who get to fudge it first, before passing it to GISS for their turn at fudging.

[cogitator]

NASA’s temperature data is now considered fraudulent.

Yeah, by skeptics. This is news? Tell me again, why is the stratosphere cooling off? (There are two reasons.) Why is the lower troposphere warming up at basically the same rate as the surface temperature record? What... D'Aleo, Coleman, and Chiefio didn't mention these things? I wonder why not.

I don’t know what brings so many things to light in the past week.

Herd mentality.

Tell me this: are the phenological indicators of spring in the Northern Hemisphere happening earlier in the calendar year (viewed statistically, of course) or not?

Likewise, are the phenological indicators of winter also occurring later in the calendar year (viewed statistically, of course), or not?

Take your time answering this question. Look up references, discussions, blog postings, whatever. Tell me what you determine.

Then tell me what it means.

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