Climate magic: New Study now claims the Global warming pause never was! Study claims ‘to have discovered that the pause is illusory and due to incorrect estimates of temperatures at the poles’
Judith Curry is having fun with the paper, noting that the methods they use to estimate the missing data are not exactly suited in the particular circumstances of polar temperatures:
- the statistical infilling technique of kriging 'makes no physical sense' when applied across land/ocean/sea ice boundaries
- satellite data is 'not useful' when applied to the polar regions
- data reanalyses are 'not useful' because of temporal inhomogeneities in the datasets that are assimilated.
