The differences between the versions of the PDO Minus
NINO data suggest to me that there may not be the multidecadal divergences between PDO and ENSO that many believe exist.
Not exact matches
«sceptics» on the other hand always do, what we are accused of here: they always want to ignore el
ninos but leave la ninas inside the
data.
If the surface temp heats up during an el
nino, blame that, but then forget about the el
nino when using the same
data point as the cherry - picked start of a trend.
The second line under ENSO shows
NINO indices based on HADISST
data.
The differences between the ERSST.v3b version of the PDO
data and the various ERSST.v3b
NINO Indices create curves that in no way resemble the JISAO / HADISST versions.
The
data highlighted in red are for the official El Niño months of the 1997/98 El Niño from NOAA's Oceanic
NINO Index.