NOAA are rapidly becoming a joke.  The 're did' the ocean level data and now amazingly. it is in 100% agreement with IPCC predictions.  Now they are doing the same with surface temperature data and guess what?  the pause in warming... NO LONGER EXISTS.  mind you, this is in keeping with the climate hysterics who claim that the Medieval Warm Period and the little ice age - all well documented - did not in fact happen.

NOAA and NASA have degenerated into the worst examples of climate science fraud around.  Forget Climategate, the real scoundrels are NASA.  IN early 2008 they declared that 2007 showed substantial COOLING.  A few months later, 2007 magically became a HOT year and no record exists on their website of the previous announcment which was heralded around the world.  these two bodies have become a disgrace.

Well, we can all sleep that much easier at night.

'The globally averaged temperature over land and ocean surfaces for May 2015 was the highest for the month of May since record keeping began in 1880. March–May and the year-to-date (January–May) globally averaged temperature were also record high.'

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/

The new version is based on 'ocean (ERSST version 4.0.0) dataset'

'Q. What are the corrections to the ERSST dataset?

A. Version 4 of the ERSST dataset improves or corrects for several factors related to sea-surface temperature (SST) measurements. These include: updated and substantially more complete input data from ships and buoys, improved metadata associated with these observations, updated SST quality control procedures, revised SST anomaly evaluation methods, updated corrections to ship SSTs using nighttime marine air temperature, accounting for differences inherent in buoy (relative to ship-borne) observations, and improved methods of identifying and using persistent statistical relationships between neighboring regions to help validate observations and address missing data. Complete information on these changes is available in Huang et al. (2015).'

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2015/5/supplemental/page-1/

That is the Karl et al (2015) paper.

remember this?

' Re: 71 new papers 2013, Sun controls climate not CO2
Reply #43 - Jun 2nd, 2015 at 4:38pm Quote
I see NOAA, fresh from a "new version of the dataset" in 2014, which somehow, unrelated, gave us "the hottest year evah", is going to update the dataset again, next week. Any bets on a new "hottest year evah"? '

lee wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2015 at 3:04pm:



130 years out of 4.54 billion.

Nice going.

longweekend58 wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2015 at 6:25pm:



Hard to imagine how anyone could think that 135 years is a significant period of time, when dealing with this subject.

If they weren't so serious, it'd almost be funny.

Hard to imagine how anyone could think that 135 years is a significant period of time, when dealing with this subject.

If they weren't so serious, it'd almost be funny.

greggerypeccary wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2015 at 6:28pm:



Its the same way people keep having a meltdown over "hottest since..." and 'driest since' while apparently forgetting that 'since' means it has happened before - and worse.

IN general, people are stupid and gullible.

Marla wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2015 at 4:23pm:


Marla, I think you'll find that 'percentage' means a great deal in things like climate change and other situations,when the base argument is what percentage of the change is natural and what percentage is man made..

If human action is only responsible for 10% of the temperature increase, then stopping all fossil fuel use and human Co2 production would only slow or reduce the upper limit by 10%. So, instead of a 2 C increase by 2100 (or whenever it is) there'd only be a 1.9 C increase.