Comments on: A Cherry-Picker's Guide to Temperature Trends (down, flat–even up)

By: Al Black

Al Black — Sat, 15 May 2010 21:51:25 +0000

I love your Global Temperature Trend Graph – it compresses a lot of data into understandable information. Has anyone published a similar graph going up to 2010?
I’d really like to see what that shows.
Thanks for the public service you have performed.

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On Weather Stations and Climate Trends - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:51:58 +0000

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By: Margaret Heft

Margaret Heft — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:24:27 +0000

Paul,
I am perplexed about your calculations as I, too, have researched global warming and came to a completely different conclusion, using both Google Scholar and Metasearch Systems. I see your references but what were your calculations to determine that global warming is happening at a much slower pace than previously thought? Actually, even a slower pace would still indicate the necessity of acting immediately to forestall a faster pace.
Global warming is more than yearly average temperatures; what are your variables?

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By: Chip Knappenberger

Chip Knappenberger — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:24:37 +0000

Mr. Pearson (re: # 37),

I think that in my article I refer adequately to the information I relied on to base my analysis. None of it depends on my contribution to the peer-reviewed scientific literature. So I don’t see your comment as germane to the subject of my post.

If you are interested in further investigating my research, try google scholar using my given name “Paul C. Knappenberger” rather than my nickname “Chip.”

I hope this helps!

-Chip

By: Robert Bradley Jr.

Robert Bradley Jr. — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:08:19 +0000

We normally do not approve comments that personally slam the author, and I will let Chip share some of his peer-reviewed work, but post-Climategate, the peer review process is tainted in climatology as Ken Green notes here: http://www.masterresource.org/2009/12/countering-kerrys-catastrophic-climate-claims-part-1-of-2-2/.

By: John E Pearson

John E Pearson — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:53:20 +0000

I am wondering why anyone would ask you anything at all about climate? I searched for you on google scholar and come up with a bunch of uncited work published on cato institute and heritage foundation web sites. Do you have any serious publications in climatology?

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:39:37 +0000

So, the longer the time interval in the data set, the more likely it is to show warming, with no cooling noted with longer than 8 years worth of data.

I think you prove your point that you can cherry pick data to show cooling, but when you use all the data, it shows warming.

So do a simple trendline for the total data set and what does it show?

By: cknappenberger

cknappenberger — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:04:02 +0000

Berry,

I think that if you work with the numbers yourself, you’ll see that the monthly data indeed produces the annual values that you are familiar with. As to what they appear to show, it is all a matter of your perception (and of course, the period that you are looking at!).

-Chip