Having arrived at
your second last graph, Growth Curves & Loess Fits, would it not round out the picture to take a couple of actual trees with counted rings and plot them next to their appropriate colour group?
However, as can be seen in
the second last graph, GISP2 temperatures are cold relative to GRIP site temperatures in 1895, so it is far better to take the anomaly as is done in the OP or in the second graph @ 15.
Not exact matches
An average of the results from the major surveys shows conditions were moderating in the
second half of
last year, after a strong first half, but they were still at a high level at the end of the year (
Graph 12).
After rising very strongly in the
second half of
last year, GDP grew by 1.0 per cent in the March quarter, to be 4.9 per cent higher than a year earlier (
Graph 2).
As seen in the
graph above, consumer default rates are below their pre-crisis rates, with the first mortgage and composite rates around those
last witnessed in late 2006, and the
second mortgage rates are near their eight - year historic low.
Growth has occurred across categories but has been strongest in intermediate and capital goods; consumption good imports have been more sluggish, reflecting softer consumer demand in the
second half of
last year (
Graph 16).
The
second - to -
last graph contains the phrase «lionish gales clawed.»
The two most prominent topics exemplifying this in the
last batch of comments are, IMO, 1) the point that the oceans are not simply one big homogenous pot of water, but extremely dynamic environments constantly interacting with the atmosphere, and 2) the point that proper interpretation of statistics, including
graphs, demands more than «well, it looks to me...» That
second point is really, really, important, and you were previously walked through it a great length (a process Barton, bless his heart, appears ready to recapitulate — and good luck, I say.
The differences this makes in the Land / Ocean HadCRUT3v is estimated in the
last graph using an anomaly of 0.7 * (HadSST3 - HadSST2), therefore the difference in the
last graph is just 70 % of the difference in the
second one.
steven foster @ 34, where you to take the effort with the actual data, a very useful
graph would be the full holocene record from Alley et al overlaid with the 100 year average from Kobashi et al for the
last 4000 years, and with an inset or
second panel showing the
last 2000 years from Kobashi et al overlaid with the 10 averages from Box (2009).
Taking the Kinnard graphic — the 1930's «similar melt» is the
second last dip on the
graph, the first decline with modern observational data.
The
second graph shows the spectral power density of the 20 - yr rate of change (ROC) in the del 18O isotope found in GISP2 ice cores over the
last 8000 years.
«A
graph based on official data shows that snow extent in the northern hemisphere
last autumn was the
second greatest on record since 1967, and that five of the snowiest have come since 2010.»
During the talk, I showed the following
graph of the Earth's total heat content, demonstrating that even over the
last decade when surface temperature warming has slowed somewhat, the planet continues to build up heat at a rate of 4 Hiroshima bomb detonations worth of heat every
second.
That's not the case: see Kerry Emanuel's
second - to -
last graph here.
Stoat points to the
graph of Arctic sea ice anomaly which is lagging behind
last years, however it is clear that this year will at a minimum be the
second lowest year, if not the lowest.
(See that
second last «dip» near the right - end in the
graph below?)