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Also from WUWT:

GISS Shaping Up To Claim 2010 as #1

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Posted on August 20, 2010 by Anthony Watts

By Steve Goddard

GISS appears to be working hard to make 2010 the hottest year ever. As you can see in the graph above, they show 2010 with much more area above the 1998 line than below. I did a numerical integration of the graph above, and found that they have 2.8 times as much area with 2010 warmer than they do with 2010 cooler.

How does this compare with other data sources? HadCrut has been adjusting their data upwards, but even using their upwards adjusted numbers, their ratio of above to below area is only 0.04. Seventy times lower than GISS.

UAH has 0.12 times as much area above as they have below. Twenty-five times lower than GISS.

RSS has 0.07 times as much area above as below. Forty times lower than GISS.

The chart below shows how much of an outlier GISS is.

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Conclusion: Dr. Hansen thinks that warming has continued unabated since 1998, while HadCrut, RSS and UAH think it has stopped or slowed to a crawl.

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Commentary from article linked at post #8:

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Lawrie Ayres says:

August 20, 2010 at 2:43 am

Grasping at straws. The future looks bleak for the AGW hypothesis as poor old mother earth decides not to play ball. Add to that the suns less energetic cycles and with La Nina and a changed PDO cooling looks a possibility.

What surprises me is that the proponents of global warming have consistently ignored the influence of the sun and the natural variants stating on more than one occasion that they are basically irrelevant. Now as they observe the fact that CO2 is not the driver they have to convince themselves as well as their adherents that it is still warming, even by data manipulation. The end of the hoax is nigh.

[Marine_Uncle]

The northern hemisphere is going to be in for one hell of a cold snowy winter once again. Wish it where otherwise.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest.