Looks like this geology graduate gets his scientific information only from newspaper columnists and bureaucrats. For those who would prefer to look at real scientific data, instead, here are the actual monthly temperature anomalies for 2009 and all prior years since 1880:
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt These data are from NASA's Goddard Center. Please plot these values using your spreadsheet program and see for yourself. Cheers, Santosh --- On Wed, 2/10/10, Gabriel de Figueiredo <[email protected]> wrote: > > Brrrr, the thinking on climate is frozen solid > http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/dominic_lawson/article6982310.ece > Quote: > In fact, the Met still asserts we are in the midst of an > unusually warm winter — as one of its staffers sniffily > protested in an internet posting to a newspaper last week: > “This will be the warmest winter in living memory, the > data has already been recorded. For your information, we > take the highest 15 readings between November and March and > then produce an average. As November was a very seasonally > warm month, then all the data will come from those > readings.” > Unquote > > Question to the UK members of GoaNet: > Has the Met Office made any comments as to the above > "gem"? > > Gabriel. >
