Climate Change in Kansas City: A Guest Weblog By Dr. Lynwood Yarbrough

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I am no statistician and have no formal training in statistics. However, it appears fair to conclude that, based on the above data, there has been no statistically significant change in average April temperature for Kansas City over the time period for which data was obtained. I have examined NOAA graphs for other months during this time period and, although I have not analyzed the data, most months show “trends” similar to that above.

I think that these data show clearly that there should be changes in the way in which NOAA presents temperature data and any “trends” in data. At minimum, the NOAA graph should show the calculated correlation coefficient for any trend line shown. I believe that there are few, if any, journals in my field of science and medicine that would publish a report purporting to show a significant trend based on data such as these.