re: #26 vxbush

Ah, but that’s the problem; no data will be considered unimpeachable, given that folks (not climate scientists) don’t even agree on how to calculate a global mean for temperatures.

Calculating the global mean is frankly only a very coarse measure and not the point.

First off, most papers do agree on how to calculate it, they average over grids, second of all, in the context of your complaint, who cares?

What is more important is looking at the changing climate patterns, the overall trends and the nature of the feedbacks.