Billy_Bob
Diamond Member
Base Line is the average of a predefined set of temperatures.
IE; the daily morning temp at 0600 every day from the same station for 30 years. this allows us to assess further temperatures of that site as anomalies.
What NOAA has done is change the base line by changing the base period which creates the average that thermometer readings are judge by. In doing so they reduced the degrees of the anomaly and made the 4 deg F actual temp disparity appear as if it was below the average anomaly and call it an insignificant rise..
Basically it is a lame attempt to change the facts into propaganda for the cause.. It does not change the facts of the real temperature but it makes the issue very cloudy and creates doubt where there should be none.
IF your read the original article it was an averaged temperature for one year which equaled 62.4 deg F. and it was done the same for each of the previous years. What became fodder was the fact that 2015 was far cooler at 58.2 deg F average temperature showing that the year had cooled significantly in comparison. They scrambled to change the base line to reduce the overall anomaly, which it did not do, it only changed the averages base line making one year +2 deg F and the other -2deg F making it appear as if it was nothing out of the ordinary..
And now it has been removed from NOAA's site, conveniently.. But my email copies are in tact, so they will never truly go away..
IE; the daily morning temp at 0600 every day from the same station for 30 years. this allows us to assess further temperatures of that site as anomalies.
What NOAA has done is change the base line by changing the base period which creates the average that thermometer readings are judge by. In doing so they reduced the degrees of the anomaly and made the 4 deg F actual temp disparity appear as if it was below the average anomaly and call it an insignificant rise..
Basically it is a lame attempt to change the facts into propaganda for the cause.. It does not change the facts of the real temperature but it makes the issue very cloudy and creates doubt where there should be none.
IF your read the original article it was an averaged temperature for one year which equaled 62.4 deg F. and it was done the same for each of the previous years. What became fodder was the fact that 2015 was far cooler at 58.2 deg F average temperature showing that the year had cooled significantly in comparison. They scrambled to change the base line to reduce the overall anomaly, which it did not do, it only changed the averages base line making one year +2 deg F and the other -2deg F making it appear as if it was nothing out of the ordinary..
And now it has been removed from NOAA's site, conveniently.. But my email copies are in tact, so they will never truly go away..
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