"yourmommycalled" wrote in message
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On Sep 15, 7:50 am, "Peter Webb"
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Let me ask you one more time. If this graph was prepared in 1988, how come
it shows actual temperature measurements after 1988? And why doesn't it
have
a legend which explains what the curves are supposed to represent? And why
are the curves so spectacularly wrong anyway?

What is it that you do not understand? Are you really incapable of
reading a simple post? As I have repeatedly posted over and over and
over and over again the graph is from a paper published in 1988.

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So you say. The "evidence" you have posted is a graph with many curves drawn
on it, some labelled "scenario A", "Scenario B" etc. The graph does not say
what these scenarios are or when they were published. The graph does not
help identify the period of prediction, as it clearly includes "predictions"
going back decades. Really, if AGW has strong experimental support, there
must be something better on the internet than an unexplained bitmap of a
graph.



The
graph on page 9347 of the 1988 paper does not show observed
temperatures after 1988. The 1988 paper is the prediction. Had you
read anything on the page I linked you would learned that the graph in
the link is the verification of the 1988 forecast with observed data
as YOU DEMANDED.

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The link you provided does not say or imply in any way that these were 1988
predictions. 1998 is not mentioned in any way; it is not specially labelled
on the graph, there is simply NO stated connection between the graph you
have posted and the year 1988.

The link compares the 1988 forecast with observed
data WHICH IS WHAT YOU DEMANDED.

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Again, so you say, but the graph certainly doesn't claim to be that.


The forecasted rate of temperature
increase for the scenario B was 0.24 +- 0.07 degrees per decade. If
you use only WMO surface stations (no sampling over the ocean) the
observed trend 0.25 +- 0.06 degrees per decade, while the land-ocean
based samples give 0.21 +- 0.06. In simples terms the curves all fit
inside the error bars. Everything you asked for is present you are
simply incapable of reading or understanding anything that is
presented in response to your questions

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So was "Scenario B" for land temperatures or ocean temperature? Again, the
graph is unlabelled, so it is impossible to say what these curves are
supposed to be predictions of, and when they were made. Also, why Scenario
"B" ? Are you just discounting scenarios "A" and "C" because they were wrong
(were they?), ignoring two incorrect predictions on the graph but accepting
the one you later found out best matched the data? Aren't you just
cherry-picking the best curve, after you know what actually happened?