“Let me help here, with something simpler, allowing for valid visual inspection of UAH vs. RSS:”
Let me help you out instead with an even simpler graph
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/uah/trend:7/offset:0.09/plot/rss/trend:7
“What’s this? The two sets are so divergent as to have next to no similarity except in the grossest sense? Even someone who was almost blind could see the difference, with the Fruit Loops removed.”
Wrong. So wrong. See above.
“The dissimilarities and divergences of RSS and UAH have been noted, commented on, and the subject of frequent debate for years.. except by UAH, which has steadfastly stonewalled on the topic.”
As you can see, it is hard to drive a wedge between them (in the main). Sure there are tiny differences but that is all.
“You again make false claims. I won’t even ask what balloons you’re imagining support your case.”
See http://www.drroyspencer.com/2010/01/how-the-uah-global-temperatures-are-produced/
“Uh.. well, talking about veering left into the Twilight Zone, prithee, what the heck are you talking about now? How exactly does Christy being indefensible bring Cowtan and Way into question? What are your questions about Cowtan and Way? They themselves have — unlike Christy — openly and at length examined the weaknesses and failings in their own work. Did you need me to add something to what they’ve said?”
Because C&W used UAH to do their work? Or did you miss that when you scanned their paper!
“It’s my feeling Cowtan and Way have performed a good service and come to interesting findings, often overlooked. Their novel methods bear closer scrutiny (which they’ve said themselves), and don’t always work (which they’ve said themselves), but on the balance of probabilities lead to conclusions likelier than not accurate or very nearly true. Do you see how these qualities are different from Dr. Christy’s UAH work and absurd testimony over the past several years?”
They managed to infill one data set from another data set without aligning (as they should have done) other the whole of their overlap period but instead used very short time spans and very small geographical distances.
If you do not understand what the potential problems are with that then…..
“However, since BEST Global Land and Ocean is available, we can easily examine which — UAH or Cowtan & Way — more closely resembles this ambitious grand daddy of climate records.
Why not look at what happens when you line up UAH, RSS, C&W vs. BEST Global?”
Sure.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/uah/trend:7/offset:0.09/plot/rss/trend:7/plot/gistemp/from:1979/trend/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1979/trend/plot/best/from:1979/trend
What does that tell you about the various offerings?
