In 1961, the unanimous consensus agreed that Earth was cooling – but GISS shows a strong warming trend from 1946 to 1961.
data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/Fig.A2.txt
SCIENTISTS AGREE WORLD IS COLDER — NYTimes.com
* Mosher says that this is all first rate science.
A history of indecisiveness at the NYT:
http://newsbusters.org/node/11640
Screw Mosher – I’m sick of his arrogant pretentious comments…
What do you expect? They could not read thermometers either.
Over at WUWT, Bill Illis asked Mosher & Zeke why his hometown in Kansas no longer had its record temperature from the 1930’s in the BEST data set. Neither replied.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/18/wuwt-video-zeke-hausfather-explains-the-new-best-surface-data-set-at-agu-2013/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/18/wuwt-video-zeke-hausfather-explains-the-new-best-surface-data-set-at-agu-2013/#comment-1506078
“Obviously, Zeke, Mosher and Robert are smart guys with the best intentions. Its just that we cannot be sure that this methodology is producing true results.
Take 20,000? stations and splice them up into 160,000 (now shorter) records and there is much higher trend than the original raw records show.
Okay, that tells you the methodology produces a higher trend. How does one double-check 160,000 spliced-up records? Why does the methodology produce a higher trend? What is the individual trend-raising rates for each particular component of the methodology. Why is there no warm 1930s period for the majority of the US in the numbers. When a record was set on July 8, 1936 in hometown Kansas, why does that not show up in the new reconstruction.
I think best intentions does not mean true. We need all the data and various other diagnostics to double-check the results.”
Jeff ID has posted questions to the BEST team with zero replies. If in my business we presented what Mosher/Zeke have done, the A2LA auditors would have a field day and we’d lose our certification.
They have mined for “peer reviewers” that agree with their claims, not to have their work seriously critiqued by qualified objective mathematicians and statisticians.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/18/wuwt-video-zeke-hausfather-explains-the-new-best-surface-data-set-at-agu-2013/#comment-1507806
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/18/wuwt-video-zeke-hausfather-explains-the-new-best-surface-data-set-at-agu-2013/#comment-1508200
Jeff Id says:
December 20, 2013 at 7:57 pm
I have no idea why my comment has been completely ignored. It seems to be the only legitimate problem with the series.
I feel like Oliver now. Is it rude?
Typing out loud – Is it even possible for an individual or organization to file charges of fraud against NASA/GISS? But then, to what end? DOJ is still stonewalling Heartland’s complaint against admitted fraudster Gleick. Onward thru’ the fog of Fed lies…