On 11 May 2015 at 19:40, Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com> wrote:
> > > On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 11:55 PM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I believe satellites and weather stations give a lot of samples of >> atmospheric temperature (and other properties, I assume). >> > > Yes, I am not questioning these readings. I believe that 2010 was warmer > than any year in the previous century, etc. > > What I am asking is for a robust statistical analysis that shows that it > is sufficiently plausible that a temperature increase trend is indeed > happening. I am just behaving in the exact same way that any proper > scientist would behave when confronted with an hypothesis driven by a set > of observations. All serious journals require it. So why not provide it? > I didn't provide it because I'm not able to, not being an expert in statistics. > > This, for me, is further evidence that the field of climate research has > gone pathological. In non-pathological scientific research, such a request > is seen as perfectly normal and not as an attack. In fact, such requests > help the cause. If the trend is real, they will only help make the case > stronger. If you care so much, why don't you join me in insisting on rigour? > I assume the results are rigorous. Why wouldn't they be/ Surely the same peer review, replication and so on applies to climate science as other scientific fields? > > Don't you see a problem with trying to demonstrate a trend with a chart > that is pre-sorted by increasing temperature? > If that was what I was trying to do, yes. But the point was only that the warmest 10 years on record had all been since 1998. Since I didn't have a graph with the years in date order, I used that one. Fortunately, Brent has a lot more data available, which so far appears to support mine. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
