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No Statistically Significant Warming Since 1995: a quick mathematical proof

Clare Swinney

Sunday 27 December 2009, 1:23PM

By Clare Swinney

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No statistically significant warming since 1995: a quick mathematical proof
No statistically significant warming since 1995: a quick mathematical proof Credit: WattsUpWithThat

This is the latest post from WattsUpWithThat, the site that helped to break the historic news about Climategate. Physicist Luboš Motl of The Reference Frame demonstrates how easy it is to show that there is no statistically significant warming since 1995.

The University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH) data is plotted in the graph above.

By: Luboš Motl

Because there has been some confusion – and maybe deliberate confusion – among some (alarmist) commenters about the non-existence of a statistically significant warming trend since 1995, i.e. in the last fifteen years, let me dedicate a full article to this issue.

I will use the UAH temperatures whose final 2009 figures are de facto known by now (with a sufficient accuracy) because UAH publishes the daily temperatures, too:

For more go here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/26/no-statistically-significant-warming-since-1995-a-quick-mathematical-proof/#more-14553

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