BBC: CRU climate scientists 'did not withold data'
Now that the damage is done.
Climate scientists at a top UK research unit have emerged from an inquiry with their reputations for honesty intact but with a lack of openness criticised.
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Record lows/highs - Daily global average temperature of near surface layer (ch04) [Troll infested]
I found out about this site which graphs the daily global average temperatures thanks to Paul Krugman's blog.
After playing with the different options that the site gives you to create your own graphs I decided to take the data that they make available as a text file to create a different visualization. I was mainly interested in seeing the days that break previous records (high or low).
For this chart, I took the first two readings for each day and set those as the record high and low for that da. Then, I compared each new value to the records set in previous years for that particular date. I marked each new record with red or blue (for high and low, respectively).
I find the resulting chart useful and alarming (but not surprising).
