Just outlaw weather, bro.
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I don't mean to belabour a point here... but can you really look at the Alabama-Huntsville data (available at Dr Roy Spencer's website ) and call that exponential growth?
The growth seems stepwise, like the ninos/ninas occasionally dump heat into the atmosphere.
The problem with using HADCRUT is that the data from different time periods is collected using different methods. For instance, there wasn't too much thermometer coverage of the ocean back in 1921! The Alabama data gives us a 43 year window of consistent data. HADCRUT also gives us a similar number of years of consistent data.
On the other hand, if you trust HADCRUT back to 1850 or 1900, then I suppose there are any number of functions that you could fit to that data! Then we'd be in a situation where we'd have to agree to disagree.
Your link is broken.
I'm aware of the difficulties of measuring temperature prior to WW2, especially when the reason they use the late 1800's, is because that is when the first measurements were done, by throwing buckets into the ocean at different points.
It sucks, but you can't just drop the data, you have to make an analysis of the data and establish an error for it.
I'm already going to tell you that if you're pointing to one city, then you're missing the entire point. Climate Change doesn't happen the exact same way everywhere.
In fact, one of the best examples of this is Canada, where Climate Change has benefited them dramatically by making a lot more western places in Yukon Territory inhabitable. Although the Watermelons scream about Polar Bears, the reality is that Polar Bears are increasing in population due to Climate Change making food more available for them in the warmer temperatures.
My point is that the situation in Huntsville, Alabama is not the same as Yukon Territory. Climate Change describes a phenomenon that effects different places differently.
This is why we can't disprove Climate Change with a snowball from Texas, or confirm it with a single hurricane in Cuba.
Oops, the broken link really screwed up that exchange!
The "Alabama-Huntsville" data is satellite data of the full global temperature conducted by the University of Alabama at Huntsville. It was started in 1979. It's not just data for one city. Come on brother, I'm not that stupid!
But, to be honest the data is similar to HADCRUT, if you start in 1979.
On the other hand, if you're happy with the pre-1970-ish measurements, then hey, maybe we've got a hyperbolic tangent on our hands. I guess all that I can say at this point is... given the longevity of my family, by the time I die we'll know which one of us is correct!