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It seems that Christopher Monckton, the author of the article, has deliberately started using the 2001-2008 HadCRUT3 data set with one of the hottest months in this period - which happens to be January 2002 (so he didn't use any 2001 data after all, despite the caption of the graph) - and then ended using the data with the very coldest month in this period, which was the abnormally cold January 2008. With such a self-selected data set to confirm his bias, is it any wonder that he got a significant cooling trend?

And what's with using only six years and one month to extrapolate a "cooling per decade" value - especially when the same data set goes back for far more than a decade and a real value could be easily calculated?

No wonder that this guy apparently doesn't have any peer-reviewed papers to his name - with such blatant attempts at cooking the data, the reviewers would laugh him out of town.

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Continued from here.

It seems that Christopher Monckton, the author of the article, has deliberately started using the 2001-2008 HadCRUT3 data set with one of the hottest months in this period - which happens to be January 2002 (so he didn't use any 2001 data after all, despite the caption of the graph) - and then ended using the data with the very coldest month in this period, which was the abnormally cold January 2008. With such a self-selected data set to confirm his bias, is it any wonder that he got a significant cooling trend?

And what's with using only six years and one month to extrapolate a "cooling per decade" value - especially when the same data set goes back for far more than a decade and a real value could be easily calculated?

No wonder that this guy apparently doesn't have any peer-reviewed papers to his name - with such blatant attempts at cooking the data, the reviewers would laugh him out of town.

Continued here.