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tripp · Sep 4, 2007

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Hey Tripp. I can't say whether the change is significant or not. It seems to me against an estimated 0.6 degree C change for the 20th century, the 0.15 degree adjustment for a span of less than a decade would be significant (granted of course that we are talking one is regional US and the other is global). But still, in terms of order of magnitude, it seems if one is "significant" then so ought be the other, or vice versa if one is "not significant".

The other thing that I find a bit troubling on this topic in particular is that Real Climate is at least in part run by Michael Mann (of hockey stick fame) and Gavin Schmidt (of NASA). I think one has to consider that MM may be happy to do what he can to discredit McIntyre after the hockey stick brouhaha. And being a NASA spokesperson, GS is likely going to downplay the results of this latest McIntyre analysis which has NASA looking a bit foolish.
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I can't speak to the personalities, but I think that Gavin's statement seems reasonable given that this only affects the US and it doesn't really change things very much in the US "rankings". The trend is still there, globally, and that's far more important than regional US implications.

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