Like you, though, Steve considers satellites to be
better than surface records for the recent period.
Not exact matches
An investigation of the most powerful earthquake ever
recorded deep within the Earth suggests deep quakes may be
better at dissipating pent - up energy
than similar quakes near the
surface, researchers say in a new study.
was finally released, the pound jumped even higher as a knee - jerk reaction because the report looked
good on the
surface, with the jobless rate for the three months to September unchanged at a
record low 4.3 % and the number of people who claimed unemployment benefits increasing only by 1.1 K in October, which is less
than the expected 2.9 K increase.
And when the U.K.'s latest jobs report was finally released, the pound jumped even higher as a knee - jerk reaction because the report looked
good on the
surface, with the jobless rate for the three months to September unchanged at a
record low 4.3 % and the number of people who claimed unemployment benefits increasing only by 1.1 K in October, which is less
than the expected 2.9 K increase.
Jacob (and many, many others) seem to think that if model A, when run from 1900 to present, predicts the relatively flat, global average
surface temperature
record over the past decade, is a
better match to reality
than model B which does not.
If we wanted accurate climate information, we would be
better off getting our data out of old newspaper and scientific articles,
than depending on GISS and other manipulated
surface temperature
records.
«In the North Atlantic region, where tropical cyclone
records are longer and generally of
better quality
than elsewhere, power dissipation by tropical cyclones is highly correlated with sea
surface temperature during hurricane season in the regions where storms typically develop»
The original Escalator was based on the Berkeley Earth
Surface Temperature (
BEST) data, which incorporates more temperature station data
than any other data set, but is limited to land - only data; additionally the
record terminates in early 2010.
There are
better methods
than irrelevant to climate
surface records.
I found that when LOD data is added to integrated sunspot numbers departing from the long term average, a curve can be produced which matches the sea
surface temperature
record from 1850 significantly
better than the co2 curve does.
While satellite measurements do provide much
better spatial and temporal sampling
than can be obtained from the
surface, their
record is much shorter in length.
Certainly we have more energy in the air and sea -
surface now, but then again, the
records, detections, and intensity measurement are so much
better today
than they were 50 and 100 years ago that it's almost like two different civilizations taking down the numbers.