For those who don’t know, our friend Paul has a post at WUWT! Congrats Paul! Sadly, he Anthony helped by making a throw-out comment on the post about Texas and the nitpickers are whining about the heatwave/drought. Whatever…… here’s the skinny on Texas. This heatwave/drought is the rule not the exception. However, GISS uses 1950-1980 as their baseline. So, I’ll ask the reader if they can spot the anomalous period. This graph is for Texas’ annual temps. You can go here to make your own graph.
Annual 1901 – 2000 Average = 65.04 degF
Annual 1895 – 2011 Trend = 0.00 degF / Decade
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Certainly they picked the coolest period as a base. However you are using NOAA information, as far as I am concerned that is worse than some of the paleo records floating around. Anecdotal at best, total trash at worst.
It does show that weather follows long term variable patterns. Properly smoothed you could destroy the signal shown in the graph.
You needed to extend your numbers two more places because I swear I can see a .0038 temperature increase in that region. 😉
yeh maybe if I magnify the graph we can claim warming…..
In CG 1 there was an e-mail talking about the importance of base period and how changing it would make the anomaly less dramatic. I think it was Karl to Jones, but it has been a couple of years since I read it.
The gist was a hope the reference period was not changed until after the person retired because of the public reaction.
Yeh, I vaguely remember something about that as well….
Is Waldo in there too?
Yep, right about the 1976 mark.
Sadly, he made a throw-out comment on the post about Texas and the nitpickers are whining about the heatwave/drought.
That was Anthony, who put that in!!
lol, sorry about that Paul, I’ll correct!!
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