Essentially the same question as one that was subsequently asked, so I’ll give the same answer…
Goddard is usually quite good at statistical subterfuge but on this occasion it looks like he’s cobbled something together in about 30 seconds without even stopping to think what he’s doing.
Look at the two graphs he produced, they’re basically the SAME data but plotted against DIFFERENT baselines; of course the anomalies are going to be different.
He chastises the NSIDC and yet they’re the ones who use the correct 30 year baseline. If the two graphs used the same baselines there would be almost no difference between them (it makes no difference which baseline is used provided there’s consistency).
The other really strange thing he does is to claim the DMI data show “melting well below normal this summer”.
How does he arrive at this odd conclusion? By comparing melting this summer with the well above average melting over the last 22 years. This year is ‘normal’ when compared with recent years but is still way above the long-term average.
The paper appears to be from 2011. It is applying to one area. That the cloudiness and water vapor are going opposite to the prevailing theory, and gives more evidence to Dr Roy Spencer's idea that clouds are a forcing not a feedback.
That is not what the paper says. The paper says the results only apply locally and are not long enough to identify climate trends.
This question has been asked and answered. Why do you repeat known errors? That is called lying, you know.
This is not contrary to the "global warming theory". Local changes in cloudiness and water vapour can cause short-term changes in the amount of downwelling infrared radiation in a region. This is a study of short-term changes over the US great plains.
Globally, downwelling radiation has increased because of an increase in temperature, water vapour and long-lived greenhouse gases, mostly carbon dioxide.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.10...
Don't confuse clouds with water vapor.
http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2014/08/cloud...
It't a theory , like gravity. Not a hypothesis
This study shows downwelling infrared radiation has declined over the last 14yrs
http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2011JCLI4210.1 this is contrary to the global warming theory.
The paper also finds a negative trend in precipitable water vapor, as do other global datasets, again the opposite of predictions of AGW theory
Plus increasing outgoing radiation from GHG also contrary to AGW
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/12/analysis-finds-noaa-satellite-data-is.html
Along with no tropical tropospheric hotspot, it is not looking good for the climate change hypothesis.
