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Re:The Climate Wars’ Damage to Science by merpnderp on Friday June 19, 2015 @03:12PM (#9746986)
I just downloaded the RSS data and wrote an R script to find the trend. It's fun to play with the numbers yourself and get an idea of the only hard temperature numbers we have.

The web allowed me to get the data in a matter of seconds.

https://gist.github.com/merpnderp/91646625546cba7a1e70

Re:The Climate Wars’ Damage to Science by MCRed on Friday June 19, 2015 @03:20PM (#9747035)
How do you get access to numbers that are not corrupted by the Mann "Algorithm" which applies "corrections"? (these corrections force growth in temperature results starting in the industrial era... which, it so happens to turn out, account for the warming.)

If your data is really hard numbers (and from sources not subject to the heat island effect) I'd guess you'd find no warming. (Well other than solar cycles, etc.)

Edit: Yes, yes, please down vote this comment talking about actual science stuff. Keep up the brigade. I'm not spamming, I'm just making points that make you unhappy because they disagree with your political dogma. I'm not sorry. You are being anti-intellectual.

Your anti-intellectualism doesn't shame me. It should shame you.

Re:The Climate Wars’ Damage to Science by merpnderp on Friday June 19, 2015 @03:25PM (#9747060)
The RSS data is just since 1979 and is based on radiation given off by different levels of the atmosphere. There have been some adjustments to the data based on changes in the satellites' heights, but this is mostly non-controversial.

Download the data and run my script. It will be fun and "sciencey".

http://images.remss.com/msu/msu_time_series.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_temperature_measurem...

[EDIT] I don't have to the mod points to downvote anyone :)