Thursday, December 01, 2011

Briffa, 2000: "southern Greenland and the oceans to the east of it have clearly cooled...If you just plug in all areas with at least 25 years coverage , very large areas of the map cool"

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The bottom line is that if you show the annual map in the Synthesis paper, there are quite a few areas that have not warmed. Incidentally, the significant trends are indicated as areas enclosed in black lines, and southern Greenland and the oceans to the east of it have clearly cooled (though most boxes are NOT significant. Other cooling areas are extreme south east USA ;west central South America; east central Africa and south east China. Probably 95 per cent of the area with data has warmed though. If you just plug in all areas with at least 25 years coverage , very large areas of the map cool. [Briffa, 2000]

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