On 11 May 2015 at 19:40, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 11:55 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I believe satellites and weather stations give a lot of samples of >> atmospheric temperature (and other properties, I assume). >> > > Yes, I am not questioning these readings. I believe that 2010 was warmer > than any year in the previous century, etc. > > What I am asking is for a robust statistical analysis that shows that it > is sufficiently plausible that a temperature increase trend is indeed > happening. I am just behaving in the exact same way that any proper > scientist would behave when confronted with an hypothesis driven by a set > of observations. All serious journals require it. So why not provide it? > I didn't provide it because I'm not able to, not being an expert in statistics. > > This, for me, is further evidence that the field of climate research has > gone pathological. In non-pathological scientific research, such a request > is seen as perfectly normal and not as an attack. In fact, such requests > help the cause. If the trend is real, they will only help make the case > stronger. If you care so much, why don't you join me in insisting on rigour? > I assume the results are rigorous. Why wouldn't they be/ Surely the same peer review, replication and so on applies to climate science as other scientific fields? > > Don't you see a problem with trying to demonstrate a trend with a chart > that is pre-sorted by increasing temperature? > If that was what I was trying to do, yes. But the point was only that the warmest 10 years on record had all been since 1998. Since I didn't have a graph with the years in date order, I used that one. Fortunately, Brent has a lot more data available, which so far appears to support mine. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
