<div>Don et. al.</div>
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<div>Recent records indicate that this past January was globally the warmest on record:</div>
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<div><strong><font size="2">GLOBAL AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR JANUARY HIGHEST ON RECORD, U.S. TEMPERATURE NEAR AVERAGE FOR MONTH</font></strong></div>
<p>NOAA apparently thought this information important enough to place on the main load page for their web site:</p>
<div><a href="http://www.noaa.org">http://www.noaa.org</a></div>
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<div>Ted Moffett</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Don Coombs</b> <<a href="mailto:mushroom@moscow.com">mushroom@moscow.com</a>> wrote:</span></div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi Ted--<br><br>Thanks for posting the NOAA graphic. It's pretty<br>straightforward, and I understand that the biggest
<br>circles represent places where the average temp this<br>past January was 5 or more degrees C (or 9 or more<br>degrees F) different from the average of the previous<br>30 Januaries.<br><br>Before I say anything critical, you should know that I
<br>don't see how there can be much doubt that global<br>warming exists and that we should try to deal with it.<br><br>If you are going to say that temperatures were more<br>varied than usual last January, though, it would help
<br>us to know how much they usually varied. Maybe, for<br>example, there was a January in 1980 which would also<br>have yielded a graphic with lots of big circles.<br><br>It's not your responsibility to offer up a measure of
<br>variability; I'm just saying that such a measure would<br>be useful.<br><br>Another thought: There were lots of those big circles<br>on the graph, which suggests that there must have been<br>some sites which could have been marked (with even
<br>bigger circles?) as 6 or 7 degees C different, rather<br>than just "5 degrees or more." That would have been<br>even more impressive and, I guess, even more of "an<br>inconvient truth."<br><br>Don Coombs
<br><br>The graph came from:<br><br>> <a href="http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007/images/jan2007-global-temp-anomalies.jpg">http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007/images/jan2007-global-temp-anomalies.jpg</a><br>
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