Phil Jones has been able to determine that May of 1867 was one of the coldest Mays on record (with three decimal place precision) based on the land data below.
He had coverage of perhaps 5% of the southern hemisphere landmass and 15% of the northern hemisphere landmass, but cold in northern Europe and Chicago was enough to prove that it was a very cold month.
Compare vs. December 2010 – Hansen’s hottest year ever. Similar conditions prevailed.
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An honest evaluation would tell us that Phil Jones has absolutely no clue what the global temperature was in 1867. It could just as easily have been the warmest May on record. The global temperature record is complete crap.
Climate science is unique in that faith in one’s own model is more important than scientific inquiry and logic. A climate scientist can claim to KNOW that the entire globe was cooler in the past with no data in the Southern Hemisphere and then turn around and claim to KNOW that the MWP did not occur in the Southern Hemisphere because there isn’t enough data. 🙂
yup, thats the very same “scientist” that refuses to admit geological records can and do give more data for sth hemisphere
Ian Plimer is one who showed evidence a damn sight more accurate than the present tales of fry and die
when certain australian govt funded media moved to the warmis bias…
then Prof Plimer went from airtime awards lauds and awards,
to persona non grata on their media, and snide and patronising dismissal by the same
person who used to interview praise and probably handed out some of the Euireka awards..
The eastern US and western Europe are all that matters. The rest of the world in 1867 was inhabited by naked savages, so who cares what kind of weather they had?