I realized after receiving a comment regarding yesterday's post that my sarcasm may have been too subtle.
Let me make it clear: more snow and long stretches of cold weather have not convinced me that there is runaway global warming. As I have explained before, my view is that over this past century we have seen a sine wave oscillation of temperatures...
Compare that with monthly high temperature records for the 50 U.S. states...
[I intend to update this for 2007]
Obviously, one can look for an upward trend... or any number of trends... from temperature data, but the fact is that the temperature data is so suspect...
- different data sources [various configurations of ground and satellite equipment]
- inconsistent siting [rooftops, parking lots, next to air conditioner condenser units]
- urban and land use change effects
While it may be cold and foggy here, I'm not in that much of a fog that I mistake this...
for global warming....
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