Finally, note that the effect of the last few years of data is smaller on the transient climate response than on climate sensitivity. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
They could make a much better decision about which teachers to retain for tenure if they had an extra few years of data. (gse.harvard.edu)
Also, for time series analyse4s, where it would be useful, say, to update a published analysis with the latest few years of data, this is already normally done via a database on on the authors website... (realclimate.org)