In my opinion the researchers in climatology should put aside their work for a moment and focus their attention on the central and decisive subject of climatology. This is the extremely close correlation between the changes in the mean surface temperature and the small changes in the rotational velocity of the Earth in the past 150 years (see Fig. 2.2 of http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/005/Y2787E/y2787e03.htm), which has been ignored by the mainstream climatologists.

Since temperature cannot influence rotation to the observed degree and vice verca, a third agent must be driving the two. The solution is given in http://www.icecap.us/images/uploads/Lobert_on_CO2.pdf .

Another thing that shows up is the fact that GISS does not have a single station in central Scandinavia, which is quite ridiculous. There are any number of stations there, some of them (e g Trondheim and Östersund) with very long, good quality temperature series.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

with the official Norwegian and Swedish Met Office Maps:

http://met.no/filestore/tama0308m.jpg

http://www.smhi.se/cmp/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=11142&a=34309&l=sv

Note that to get comparable maps you have to change the GISS “base period” from the 1951-80 default to the the internationally used base period 1961-90 (and, yes, 1951-80 was appreciably colder than 1961-90).

Check out March 1990 – very similar anomalies .

BTW Asia was very warm I mentioned this some weeks ago and that March was shaping up to be much warmer than Jan and Feb but was more or less dismissed.

We are promised that all outliers are removed from data. Promised! Why, it’s Step One of the NOAA adjustment procedure (really).

They keep closing down stations in Russia and China within a radius of 1200 km, you kidder you. Within stations that have a March warming of +10° they removed this one from March evaluation, because it shows no warming trend at all:
gistemp station 205505270004.0.1 in Russia.

I was not referring to such outliers. I mean GISS NASA as a March outlier in general because of their Russian/Chinese early spring “surface heat wave”. Gotta wait for NOAA NCDC. I don’t know what you don’t like about NOAA?

Both China and Russia hope to make a pile of dough selling mythical carbon credits to Europeans so they have an incentive to report warming when there is none.

More diabolical, they could report warmer temps so that everyone else would cut energy consumption and then they would win.

shrugs

March was the 52nd coolest for the US, just south of middle of the road.

How’s about a little soliloquy by Lear’s fool?

Nonsense, old son. We are promised that all outliers are removed from data. Promised! Why, it’s Step One of the NOAA adjustment procedure (really). What you require is a greater trust in our great institutions.

I find your lack of faith . . . disturbing.

Yes; the distinct mark of the heat sink. Exaggeration of temperature increase during warming. Exaggerated regression during cooling.

You see, there’s a part of this site everyone seems to be forgetting about: “How not to measure temperature.” Remember? (nudge-nudge)

Question: Is there a climate audit going on for the Russian and Chinese datasets of surface stations? This seems to be the great +++ outliers compared to satelite measurements. Gotta track that problem down.