Terrific stuff.
Takeaways:
1) Volcanic activity skewed the data . . . less human influence when adjusted
2) Models are not being updated with HARD DATA . . . that’s like you and I still relying on my preseason Top 20 College Football Poll to pick the CFP Playoff teams instead of game results
3) “Those eruptions happened relatively early in our study period, which pushed down temperatures in the first part of the dataset, which caused the overall record to show an exaggerated warming trend,” Christy said.
“While volcanic eruptions are natural events, it was the timing of these that had such a noticeable effect on the trend. If the same eruptions had happened near the more recent end of the dataset, they could have pushed the overall trend into negative numbers, or a long-term cooling,” Christy said.
This point is pretty damning to the hysterics . . . if the volcanoes had erupted later the data might well show a COOLING PERIOD now!
“1) Volcanic activity skewed the data . . . less human influence when adjusted”
No no no. It’s the human influence which caused the volcano in the first place.