>>Today’s Daily Mail exploded Muller’s lies and uses no less than one of his CO-AUTHORS to destroy his credibility. <<
As you said, Judith Curry, one of his co-authors, is taking issue with the content of his press release. This is going to be big, as big as both Climategate and the Hockey Stick fraud, because it’s so easy to understand.
In a nutshell, Prof Muller used 10-year averaging to disguise the fact that the land temperature record has been essentially flat for the past 10 years or longer. But the individual data points are available, and people are tearing his analysis (if you could call it an analysis, instead of an obvious propaganda attempt) apart online. And Curry agrees with the critiques.
Furthermore, the AGW meme is that land temperatures should lead ocean temperatures, and this study involves land temperatures only.
The actual point of the BEST study was to aggregate and analyze all of the available land temperature records in an attempt to get one solid data set. Fortunately, the AGW crowd, seeing what they thought was the result they wanted, jumped on board immediately and claimed that the BEST records are, well, the best available now.
And now, ironically, the skeptics will almost certainly agree, since closer analysis supports the skeptic’s side of the argument.
So, everyone agrees that CO2 has increased in the atmosphere over the past several decades, including the last, and it’s the position of the AGW crowd that this should lead to a continuous increase in temperatures, with land temperatures increasing fastest. CO2 increased, but land temperatures have remained flat for at least a decade now, according to data that they were acclaiming a week ago as the best available.
Perfect. This should be the final nail in the AGW coffin, especially since it’s easy to understand the obvious ruse, and so many reporters were taken in by it that some are almost certain to bite back at the hand that fed them the ruse.
And since they heavily bias all their recent temperature records upwards, the flat lining of temperatures the past 10 years, means that in reality recent temperatures have been falling. They fell fairly strongly the past 5 years. This will become very evident during the northern hemispheres winter. Already shattered numerous all time October snow records. And that simply cannot happen if the planet was recently warming or even recently flat lining.