New study backs climate change data
Posted on by nickcheffins
A new analysis commissioned in the wake of the climate gate affair a to review temperature data has concluded that the increase in land temperatures are real.
The work was carried out by a group part funded by climate sceptics who have claimed that anomalies such as the heat island effect of large cities had inflated the temperature changes being recorded by some met stations and that this data was being ignored in some of the existing reports. However, as the graph below indicates, the Berkley Earth Project concluded that despite, using a larger set of measurement sites and types than the original studies they observed a very high level of matching. This was consistent even where they compared between low and high level accuracy data sets.
They concluded that this indicated that the original work was of a careful and high standard.