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Anthony Watts makes a huge fuss about miniscule changes in RSS atmospheric temperature data
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Anthony Watts makes a huge fuss about miniscule changes in atmospheric temperature data
This is what his fuss is all about - the chart below shows the data provided in different months. See if you can spot the difference.
A few days ago an astute reader wrote to me, asking if I knew why the RSS historical temperatures for the lower atmosphere varied month to month. I in turn asked Dr Carl Mears, who is the scientist behind the RSS temperature analysis (among other things).
To see what changes month to month, compare the charts for RSS TLT v3.3, which is just of the lower troposphere. The data is from that provided in November 2013, March 2016, July 2016 and October 2016:
Anthony Watts makes a huge fuss about miniscule changes in atmospheric temperature data
This is what his fuss is all about - the chart below shows the data provided in different months. See if you can spot the difference.