Comments on: Observer Technology Bias in Hurricane Counts http://www.climate-skeptic.com/2007/12/observer-techno.html Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:47:37 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Matti Linnanvuori http://www.climate-skeptic.com/2007/12/observer-techno.html/comment-page-1#comment-250 Matti Linnanvuori Tue, 25 Dec 2007 13:34:51 +0000 http://climate-movie.com/wordpress/2007/12/observer-techno.html #comment-250 <p>You should also take into account the growth of population and shipping, which skews the later observations up.</p> You should also take into account the growth of population and shipping, which skews the later observations up.

]]> By: Gene Hoffman http://www.climate-skeptic.com/2007/12/observer-techno.html/comment-page-1#comment-249 Gene Hoffman Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:26:51 +0000 http://climate-movie.com/wordpress/2007/12/observer-techno.html #comment-249 <p>One note of caution. Shore reports would be directly comparable, but in the modern era, the satellite nature of the storm data would cause ships to avoid hurricane or tropical depression paths, therefor artificially skewing the ship reports down in modern times.</p> <p>-Gene</p> One note of caution. Shore reports would be directly comparable, but in the modern era, the satellite nature of the storm data would cause ships to avoid hurricane or tropical depression paths, therefor artificially skewing the ship reports down in modern times.

-Gene

]]> By: Michael Babbitt http://www.climate-skeptic.com/2007/12/observer-techno.html/comment-page-1#comment-248 Michael Babbitt Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:43:38 +0000 http://climate-movie.com/wordpress/2007/12/observer-techno.html #comment-248 <p>To give due credit, this was a David Smith letter presented by Steve McIntyre at his site, Climate Audit. Read the comments also and we come again to the bottom line: a conclusion from an analysis of data is only as good as the data permits. AGW: so many far-reaching conclusions, so little completely dependable data. </p> To give due credit, this was a David Smith letter presented by Steve McIntyre at his site, Climate Audit. Read the comments also and we come again to the bottom line: a conclusion from an analysis of data is only as good as the data permits. AGW: so many far-reaching conclusions, so little completely dependable data.

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