UAH Global Temperature Report: 2012 was 9th warmest

climatebeagle January 4, 2013 at 9:58 am
That NOAA reference for which you give an address is worthless. First, they claim that 2010 and 2005 are tied for highest temperature. Both are lower than 1998 according to satellites. Their ground-based data simply have poor resolution and do not show the actual height of the 1998 super El Nino. That is important because 2010 happens to be the peak year of the 2010 El Nino and you cannot draw a global temperature curve by using just El Nino peaks, especially if you can’t even measure their height properly. To determine the mean global temperature you must average the El Nino peak temperature and the neighboring La Nina bottom temperature. They alternate like that, going back as far as temperature records exist. You can do this by hand or you can approximate it by using a running mean of say, 11 years which is about twice the length of an ENSO cycle. Reporting just the El Nino peak temperatures is deceptive. But if you do that, say so and make it your business to show the El Nino peaks correctly which their twisted ground-based records do not do well. Their records are also suspect because of constant revisions that nobody is told about as well as computer processing that goes back at least 33 years. They did not know this but one of their computer sessions had an unanticipated consequence when it left sharp temperature spikes sticking up at the beginnings of many years. So far I have determined that these anthropogenic spikes exist in exactly the same places in GISTEMP, NCDC, and HadCRUT temperature curves. Looks like the processing was done to the ancestor of these three curves and was later thought of as noise, not an anthropogenic artifact. We don’t know what is going on now but divergences between different data sets could all be due to behind the scenes manipulation that we don’t know anything about. There probably is a law against manipulation of data sets passed off as original data.

Andyj
Climate Ace.
Ever heard of “cherry picking”? I know that place perfectly well. They were the only place in all of AUS that received no rains (***) when everywhere else was being deluged.
(***) Or should we say did not report the rains. It was spooky to see the national map with one little tiny, tiny, minuscule area by the sea not receive a drop! If you are one of those Carbonazis I suggest you shoot all the aboriginals because the recent NASA night image of AUS was ruined with all those fires.
I admire your perfect knowledge. The rest of us can but aspire. As for the rest of your post, I trust that the moderater will re-read it and expunge it on the grounds that it:
(a) makes a personal attack on another poster
(b) makes light of the real Nazis who trashed europe and russia and who were responsible for the mass murder of millions and the collateral deaths of tens of millions of innoncent people;
(c) makes up data about rainfall on a blog dedicated to scientific facts
(d) encourages the genocide of Australia’s Indigenous population.
But since the moderator saw fit to publish another post which abused the memory of the Holocaust to make an obscure point about climate science, I doubt it.
[Reply: WUWT moderates with a light touch. The comment you cite was not out of bounds. If we started censoring comments that someone didn’t like, we would be no different from alarmist blogs. You have the right to respond. Take advantage of it. Readers will make up their own minds, and the truth will eventually emerge. — mod.]

HenryP January 4, 2013 at 7:00 am
To illustrate why you think that UAH must be wrong you refer us to a Woodfortrees temperature chart showing both UAH and RSS data on the same graph since 1998. These people draw two straight lines through the entire plot starting in 1998. That is dead wrong. You must not include the super El Nino and the step temperature rise that follows after a La Nina dip with 21st century temperatures. You have to start your trend line for the 21st century from 2001 and if you do that you discover that RSS trend line points down and shows a temperature decrease of 0.1 degrees in twelve years while UAH is horizontal – no trend either way. I have noticed this divergence before and think that RSS is monkeying with their temperature data.

From http://icecap.us/ on Jan 5th, 2013
Since late November the country has shivered at an average of minus 3.8 degrees Celsius, 1.3 degrees colder than the previous average, and the chilliest in 28 years, state news agency Xinhua said on Saturday, citing the China Meteorological Administration. The cold in Eurasia and elsewhere offset warmth in the US and created global temperatures below the NCEP model normal for December.

I been following the record lows this December.
Bitter cold has covered the globe in Dec-Jan. How can this article claim this, “Northern Hemisphere: +0.14 C (about 0.25 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for December.”
Once again, I don’t believe it. And the NCEP agrees with me.
And Matt G says, A reminder for those that didn’t know, HAD3 had December 2010 about 0.5c to 1c above average for the UK when it was the second coldest December recorded.
That’s what I’m talking about–something is not being reported correctly and I’d like Phillip, John Cristy, or Dr. Spencer to tell us what it is.