vecchia capra wrote:
The reality is that much of the data is so hosed up that no one can really say whether or not there has been global warming at all.
Unsubstantiated assertion.
vecchia capra wrote:
All of the Australian numbers were just revised downward because they were using the wrong calculations in processing the raw data.
Well, no, it wasn't all of them - it was about six stations (of nearly 700) that had buggy firmware on cards installed in the 90s, such that temperatures below -10.4C were not recorded properly. That's not a good thing, but it seems like you might be blowing things a little out of proportion.
vecchia capra wrote:
None of the US data factors in urban growth over the decades, the temps were taken from rural airports or smaller airports in the 1960s which are either now surrounded by buildings and parking lots or newer airports with more concrete and bigger parking lots.
Completely untrue. Heat island effects are taken into account data processing.
vecchia capra wrote:
Many of the Russian weather locations went dark in the 1990s, which changed the raw data input but I have never seen a real means of factoring in that missing data in any of the research that I have seen.
You must not be looking at very much research, then. The loss of Russian weather stations has been addressed in the scientific literature on the GHCN. The interesting thing is that observed surface warming would be greater if those stations had remained operational. This is because many of those stations were high-latitude stations with a continental climate - which is where we see pronounced surface warming. So that "missing data" you're complaining about? It most likely reduces the observed global warming.
vecchia capra wrote:
The truth is the
only real way to determine global warming is sea surface temps, which are taken in much more varied locations daily by every Navy ship in the fleets.
Completely untrue. And I say that despite the fact that SSTs show a consistent upward trend.
vecchia capra wrote:
The ocean does not change like airport locations do over time. If it is shown that the sea surface temps are going up worldwide, then I would believe it. .
Then believe it, brother!
vecchia capra wrote:
The funny thing is we are overdue for a lot of volcanic activity these days, and it would only take couple of conventional volcanoes or one super volcano to make us wish for global warming.
Overdue for volcanic activity? Did someone provide you with a schedule?