Re: REALITIES OF GLOBAL WARMING

From: Richard (no.spam_at_spam.net)
Date: 10/21/04 

Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:28:55 +0200

Eric Swanson wrote:
>
> This article contains some basic errors and many of the points discussed on
> this forum over the past 6 or 7 years. My favorite is the graph ( Figure 8)
> lifted from Spencer and Christy's web site. The commentary associated with
> it states that there is a global cooling of -0.06 deg C/decade. This is no
> longer the case, as the data now shows a warming of about 0.08 deg C/decade.
> Other researchers that have analyzed the same data have presented results
> that indicate an even larger warming.
>
> Spencer and Christy have not updated the web page referenced since 1998.
> The graph was lifted from:
> http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/MSU/msusci.html
> This web page states that there is a warming trend of +0.04 deg C/decade.
> But, this web page also is out of data, having not been updated since 2002.
> I asked NASA about this and Roy Spencer agreed that, yes, the web page needed
> to be updated. That was on 25 August, 2004...........
>
Thanks Eric, :) this is definitely more helpful in putting these
articles into the right perspective!

Richard