GISS uses an insidious trick to hide their data tampering. They cool pre-1963 years, and warm post-1963 years. This makes their data tampering look much less severe than it actually is. A better visualization is to normalize the graphs to the most recent common data, and show the total magnitude of the tampering. The animation below shows that.
2003 version
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/data/update/gistemp/graphs/Fig.Anew.ps
2014 version
[Update : comment from Eric Steig]
For the record, I never said anything of the sort. It’s best to avoid publishing quotes, unless you have first hand evidence that the quote is correctly attributed. I agree with you that such claims about there being “a 1-in-27 million chance” that Earth’s record hot streak is natural are stupid. I’d appreciate your correcting or deleting this blog post of yours, seeing as there is a 100% chance you are misquoting me!
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There is less than a 1-in-27 million chance that Earth’s record hot streak is natural
Eric Steig, a professor at the University of Washington, told Mashable that satellite data’s main flaw is that it doesn’t tell us much about the changing climate where we live — that is, at the surface.
“We live on the surface, and the surface temperature records are the most global and longest term record we have,” he said. “The satellite records measure something different — not the surface, where we live but averages over a substantial vertical part of the atmosphere. The records are short, and subject to greater uncertainties than the surface temperature data.”
There is less than a 1-in-27 million chance that Earth’s record hot streak is natural
Steig says that surface temperatures are reliable, yet GISS has massively altered them over the past decade. In fact, GISS has nearly doubled reported 1880 to 2000 warming since their 2003 version. They have altered the data so much, they had to stretch the scale at both ends to fit their alterations on to the graph. This is not “reliable” data.
2003: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/data/update/gistemp/graphs/Fig.Anew.ps
2014: Fig.A.gif (656×446)
It defies explanation how any scientist could report this as reliable data. But it is much worse than it seems. The tampering above sits on top of a huge amount of earlier tampering.
But it gets even worse. Why would you choose surface temperatures over satellite temperatures to measure global warming? The whole point of global warming is that it warms the troposphere, not the asphalt five feet from the thermometer.
Science doesn’t get any worse than this, Eric Steig. Making such a bold claim based on completely unsupportable data. You have completely reversed reality and misled the public and policy makers.
President Obama believes that it is important to block Keystone, so that we can continue to purchase oil from Saudi Arabia
In May last year, authorities sentenced Badawi, 31, to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes after he used his liberal blog to criticise Saudi Arabia’s powerful clerics. The Jiddah Criminal Court also ordered he pay a fine of 1 million Saudi riyals (£175,700).
Our most accurate temperature data is from satellites, and shows that there has been no warming for almost 19 years. This means that no schoolchild on the planet has seen any global warming during their life
Climate experts say that last year was the hottest year ever. They also say that sea ice is disappearing in the heat.
Neither claim is supported by actual data. Last year began the year with record amounts of sea ice on the planet, and finished the year just behind that record.
The amount of sea ice on Earth has been averaging about one New England above normal since the start of 2013.
arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.global.anom.1979-2008
Satellites have much better coverage than surface data, and they show that 2014 was nowhere near the warmest, and in fact was a fairly ordinary year
The NASA/NCDC announcement was clearly politically motivated, and is not supported by science. Look for President Obama to cite Gavin’s fake claim in his State of The Union speech.
Temperatures at Melbourne were hottest ever this last year, with their thermometer located five feet away from the asphalt.
President Obama can’t find anything bad to say about Islamic terrorists, but he says Americans “become bitter – they cling to guns and religion.”
The White House wants global warming propaganda, and Gavin delivers! He just declared a record year by 0.02 degrees, but forgot to mention that they altered the data by seven times that much – just since 2008.
The graph below shows changes to NASA land-ocean temperature, since 2008. The years from 1910 to 1965 have been cooled, and subsequent years have been warmed. This creates a completely fake warming, and a record temperature with an error much larger than the claimed record delta.
2014 version : data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/Fig.A2.txt
2008 version : http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2.txt
Spreadsheet :Fig.A2.20080124.xls
This is on top of all of the other massive tampering they did in prior years.
There isn’t one shred of credibility to the claim of a record temperature.
A few years ago, Mikey told us that he doesn’t trust tree rings after 1960. Now he says he doesn’t trust satellites either.
Some non-scientists who deny man-made global warming have pointed to satellite temperature records — which only go back to 1979 — which show a warming world, but no record this year and less of a recent increase than the longer-term ground thermometers. But Mann, Dessler, Francis and others say there have been quality and trustworthy issues with some satellite measurements and they only show what’s happening far above the ground. They said ground measurements are also more important because it is where we live.
My Way News – The heat is on; NOAA, NASA say 2014 warmest year on record
The only thing Mikey trusts is data which has been massively tampered with by his Real Climate buddies. The surface data is so reliable, that they had to do this :
The whole idea of global warming is that CO2 warms the troposphere. But the troposphere isn’t warming, so the experts ignore it.
Global warming theory tells us that mid-troposphere temperatures should rise faster than surface temperatures. We are seeing the exact opposite.
