CO2? ....Explained at biocab?
Fortunately this has nothing to do with CO2,
so we don't have to bring up that entertaining site.Hi John,
Thanks for the information about how they calculated their average.
Thanks for the quote; did you have a question about it?
When I said "the trend is upward," I was referring to the pink line,
the product of a "rolling 5 year average."
Shouldn't a "rolling 5 year average"exclude 2008 (winter months only)?
It has been beyond the (whatever level of) error bars that were drawn by the IPCC.
Really?
How do we know that? Do you have a link?
[update]
Whoops, I see. The lowest red line is the lower limit of those "error bars." Is that correct?
meanwhile....
The trend occasionally heads gently downwards, as in 1981-84, 1989-91, 1997-98, and 2000-01.
Do you think this newest update, with the partial 2008 data,
indicates that we're about to head down a steep slope?
Why would this be any different than those other occasional slowdowns
in the rapid upward slope of that pink line.
I think the important thing to compare is the slope of the pink line
and the slope of the different IPCC projections.
Which one matches the closest? I'd eyeball it as slightly steeper than the black line,
but not nearly as steep as the dashed-red line. Does that seem right?
p.s. This weekend... CO2, finally (hopefully).
