March 2007 at 8:47 AM Do Sato and Hansen plan to send a reply?
• Eric Swanson Says: 28 March 2007 at 10:02 AM Re: #125 Joel Shore Thanks. It’s obvious that their technique can’t handle missing data. They exclude 33 of 264 months. I’ve looked at the data a bit and what they actually did is even more interesting. The Halley station is the source of most of the missing months in their data file with 20 missing. But, the NASA GISS data does not show any missing months “after homoteneity adjustment”. Are these guys using the raw data? They don’t actually say so. It gets better. The Chiang Mai station had 15 months missing in the GISS data set, but they only show 6 missing. And the Cartagena data is missing 9 months in GISS, but they show only 4 missing months. Why is this? They used interpolation to fill in where single months are missing. What’s this again? Is it that they don’t like the corrected GISS data, but they do think it’s OK to use THEIR corrections? They offered numerous objections to simple averaging and grid box binning, yet they apply a s
