Toddsterpatriot
Diamond Member
Gosh, you're stupid. Let's do a little math. Take off your shoes and count on your toes if you have to.
Thanks Dave. I was hoping you'd do exactly what you just did, which is display how your ignorance of the science makes you such easy pickings for the scammers.
Here are numbers representing 16 different stations scattered across a wide area:
17 19 22 2 9 18 6 4 1 21 5 3 14 8 7 25 15 16 13 23 20 12 10 0 11
We have a low data point of 0 and a high data point of 25, with an average of 18.8.
Now let's do like climate "scientists" do and throw out the inconvenient data, choosing the warmest station to represent the entire area: The average suddenly becomes 25.
All of a sudden, the average temperature became over 6 degrees warmer. Note that the area itself didn't get any warmer -- but they sure do want you to think it did, don't they?
And thus Dave does his face plant into a cow patty.
Dave, notice how when average temperatures are calculated, they don't use an absolute temperature? For example, they might say May 2014 is +0.33C. That's the temperature anomaly.
And why do they use temperature anomaly instead of absolute temperature? Precisely so they _don't_ get the situation you just described.
If you use the anomaly, it doesn't matter if you drop out or add hotter or colder stations, as the average anomaly will be unaffected. And that's why the dropping out of those old stations had no effect on the temperature average. The anomaly average only changes if stations that were added or removed had a different trend. But since UHI is compensated for in the averages, the stations all trend together very closely.
Seriously, this is basic stuff. Since you didn't know it, it indicates you're not qualified to be sitting at the grownups' table. Back to the kiddie table with you, until you do more 'larnin.
If you use the anomaly, it doesn't matter if you drop out or add hotter or colder stations, as the average anomaly will be unaffected.
If the anomaly is the change from the average and you drop the colder stations, how does that not increase the anomaly?
Feel free to ask someone at the kiddie table if you need help.