I'm sure I'm not the only one who finds it fascinating that Anthony Watts whole SurfaceStations effort ended up providing a surprisingly robust independent validation of GISTEMP, especially given Watts' propensity to make statements that his project will show that "...some of the global warming increase is not from CO2 but from localized changes in the temperature-measurement environment."
For those not prone to trolling through oft-tedious CA threads, you can see JohnV's most recent comparison of the sites characterized as good (classes 1 through 3) and rural to GISTEMP here: http://www.opentemp.org/_results/20071011_CRN123R/crn123r_gistemp_5yr.png I'm also quite impressed by the work that John Vliet has put into his OpenTemp.org project. It should prove a good research tool for students and researchers alike who are somewhat put off by the antiquated Fortran GISTEMP code. I'm in the process of writing a news piece on this for http://yaleclimatemediaforum.org/ which should be (hopefully) up later this week. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
