We keep hearing about how every recent year is the warmest ever. NASA has just released revised temperature figures. The warmest year on record is no longer 1988 (it's #2). The warmest year is 1935. The "dust bowl", remember? The #3 year is 1921. #4 is 2006!! But #5 is 1931.
Now, this graph, for the U.S. alone, may not mean much. Or it may. How do you decide? The trend is "up", but with all of 125 years of data how useful is that?
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Hmm can we de-bias that data for the variations in incident solar flux in both the magnetic solar cycle as well as the long term (> 25 yr) trends in variation? I freaking hate that those plots as touted as fabulous proof when they don't take into account other issues we know about.
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