Sentences with phrase «reliable than surface temperature»

Not exact matches

The idea that the MSU record somehow provides more accurate or reliable temperature trends than surface measurements with thermometers, sometimes promoted by «climate skeptics», is scientifically untenable.

But the IPCC said the longer term trends were clear: «Each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the Earth's surface than any preceding decade since 1850 in the northern hemisphere [the earliest date for reliable temperature records for the whole hemisphere].»

Many researchers seem to have assumed that the weather station - based estimates are much more reliable and consistent than the Sea Surface Temperature estimates.

Sea surface temperature has been consistently higher during the past three decades than at any other time since reliable observations began in 1880.

If this is the best such land area surface temperature assessment system on the planet (covering, as well, a broad range of metropolitan, suburban, and rural areas), and the quality of the system is now proven to be demonstrably more prone to error than had been previously assumed — with the preponderance of error shown to produce the impression of warming in excess of real conditions prevailing — what may be reliably inferred about surface temperature monitoring systems data from even less reliable thermometers all over the rest of the world?

A similar, but stronger case can be made using surface temperature datasets, which I consider to be more reliable than satellite datasets (they certainly agree with each other better than the various satellite datasets do!).