You would be hard pressed to find a climate skeptic these days who is not a complete moron, a dedicated liar, or both. A popular lie is the claim that measured temperature data does not match predictions, usually accompanied by a plot comparing predicted average global surface temperature with measured temperatures from somewhere else, such as the ocean, the tropics, the troposphere etc. These plots often look like they were produced by a primary school student being taught to use microsoft excel, with the data stopping about a decade ago. Pointing out the obvious flaws does not seem to help, they have an endless supply of slightly different versions of the same lie.
This is what you get when you compare predicted average global surface temperature with measured average global surface temperature:
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2943/study-confirms-climate-models-are-getting-fut
ure-warming-projections-right/
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Here is Ajax comparing the tropics with the global average, and in the same post comparing lower troposphere temperatures with surface temperatures.
https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1619599858/26#26Here is Lee comparing ocean temperatures with predicted air temperatures:
https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1619147859/24#24Here is Lee comparing troposphere temperatures with surface temperatures, and trying to avoid providing the source:
https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1619599858/1#1Here is Lee comparing predictions with measured lower troposphere temperatures. The graph also shows a separate line with different measured data for the surface temperature:
https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1619147859/17#17Here is Lee arguing that it is valid to compare surface temperatures with lower troposphere measurements, because the lower troposphere is “where we live”.
https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1619599858/33#33Here is Lee providing another graph highlighting the difference between the lower troposphere and the surface:
https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1619599858/13#13Here is Lee comparing surface temperatures with mid troposphere measurements:
https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1619147859/19#19 Wow! Modelling 0.5 degrees, over 50 years, across the entite globe.