The Blackboard

In comments, JK asked:
Has anyone checked the trends in UAH/RSS vs the models? Also, I believe Dr. Pielke Sr, Jr. et al published a paper showing that the trends for NCDC et al are likely overstated due to boundary condition measurement issues.
Has anyone plotted their revised views vs. the models? I believe they don’t plot [...]

The Channel 5 temperature have dropped rather dramatically since the beginning of August.

UAH temperature anomalies were officially posted yesterday. I thought you all might like to see a graph of temperature anomalies with uncertainty intervals. I included a trend of 2C/century for references:
As you can see:

The trends for both UAH and RSS are negative since 2001 with RSS having the larger negative trend.
If [...]

As most of you are no doubt aware, both RSS and UAH reported temperatures for the troposphere during my absence: Both dropped relative to February.
Needless to say, Anthony and Roy both scooped me on these (as did David.) But I won’t let that stop me from posting some images.
Below, I plotted RSS [...]

The thread on the TT hotspot is so long I’m experiencing server errors trying to load it. Discuss it here.
The definition of a climate fingerprint keeps coming up in comments. I have mentioned that when using the term fingerprint, I use the IPCC definition from the glossary to the AR4. This is the definition.