Watts is one of those "non-peer-reviewed reports, blog sites, and think tanks" that the administrative law judge laughed at.
Lindzen and Spencer
again, but not for the last time.
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"Failed Math: In 1997, NOAA claimed that the Earth was 3.83 degrees warmer than today"
Uh, no, but in 2016, Watts said they did.
Also, in '99, they claimed '98 was warmer than '97. '97 went from warmest to off the "top 15 (or 16) warmest" list in 18 years. It's starting to look like Watts will be saying, "Yet in 2016, the claim for the “'warmest ever' GAT is different" a year from now, and he'll still be lying.
Global Mean Temperature Anomalies - 1998
The above time series shows the combined global land and ocean temperature anomalies from 1880 to 1998 with respect to an 1880-1997 base period. The largest anomaly occurred in 1998, making it the warmest year since widespread instrument records began in the late Nineteenth Century. The second warmest year was 1997, and seven of the ten warmest years have occurred in the 1990s.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/199813
- The following table lists the global combined land and ocean annually-averaged temperature rank and anomaly for each of the 16 (two tied at #15) warmest years on record.
Rank
1 = Warmest
Period of Record: 1880–2015YearAnomaly °CAnomaly °F|
| 1 | 2015 | 0.90 | 1.62 | | 2 | 2014 | 0.74 | 1.33 | | 3 | 2010 | 0.70 | 1.26 | | 4 | 2013 | 0.66 | 1.19 | | 5 | 2005 | 0.65 | 1.17 | | 6 (tie) | 1998 | 0.63 | 1.13 | | 6 (tie) | 2009 | 0.63 | 1.13 | | 8 | 2012 | 0.62 | 1.12 | | 9 (tie) | 2003 | 0.61 | 1.10 | | 9 (tie) | 2006 | 0.61 | 1.10 | | 9 (tie) | 2007 | 0.61 | 1.10 | | 12 | 2002 | 0.60 | 1.08 | | 13 (tie) | 2004 | 0.57 | 1.03 | | 13 (tie) | 2011 | 0.57 | 1.03 | | 15 (tie) | 2001 | 0.54 | 0.97 | | 15 (tie) | 2008 | 0.54 | 0.97
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