Daily Archives: February 4, 2011

Assessing Climate Trends: Eyeball versus Regression

In a previous post, I showed the Lower Stratospheric Temperature Anomaly (TLS) Trends (link).  A reader submitted the following comment:

“The lower stratosphere temperature profile is essentially flat from ca. 1995 to the present. This approximately mirrors the temperature trend for the surface temperature. From 1980 to about 1995, the surface temperature increased while the lower stratospheric temperature decreased. After that both went flat.tony

In the words of Edwards Deming:

In God we Trust, All Others Must  Bring Data”

Since tony didn’t bring any data to back up his  claims, I’ll do the analysis for him.

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