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Originally Posted by andyc
I missed Renato's last reply to me, so apologies for another long one...
Again with the cherry-picked El Nino of 1998! Are you under the impression that El Nino events do not lead to a temporay high in annual temperatures? And you are unaware that starting a short timeseries from an extreme high in the noise will skew the trend? Why are all the La Nina years since 2001 warmer than the El Nino years before 1998? Could there be an underlying trend that you refuse to see? A trend that is plainly evident if you use 30 years from 1984 to 2014. And a trend for which we have a very strong physical understanding of the cause. |
Andy, this work also nicely summarizes what your saying here -
http://spaceweather.com/swpod2009/04...4omhqhdvoq1uv6