Don’t even try and figure it out Gordon, Both NOAA, NCDC, and GISS have been busy revising old temperature records (always downward)and changing 20 year old satellite data (again downward) claiming that wrong algoriths were used or the heat island effect was over-valued, etc.
Your data table was created when they were caught with their hands in the cookie jar and had to actually go back to the real data and analyze it with accepted statistic methods, instead of methods that give you the results you want (think Hockey-Stick Graph).
They’re back at it again however claiming that 9 out of 10 of the hottest years have been since 1998. Funny, NOAA thinks 2007 is the 5th warmest year on record, while NCDC claims it is the 2nd. If this stuff is as cut-and-dried as they claim it is (it isn’t), they could at least agree on these points.
You’d be amazed how much something like temperature data can be manipulated anyway you want it. It depends again on fudging factors and the method of analysis. Something that most people aren’t aware of.
The more you research climate research, the more disgusting it gets.
