Wednesday, February 27, 2008

"differences in 'preparation' lead to significant differences in the final data-set"

See the whole thing here.

Excerpt:
It also suggests to me that satellite temperature data is a more representative global temperature metric than manually measured land-ocean temperature data-sets because there is a more unified and homogeneous measurement system, less potential bias, no urban heat island issues, no need of maintaining individual temperature stations, fewer final adjustments, and a [much] faster acquisition of the data.



A related graph is here:

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