1998 was not the hottest year in US history. It was 1934.

[Gabu]

If you were smart enough to understand the graph I had posted, you'd see that there has been considerable GLOBAL warming since 1934.

As I understand the article, there was an error in the data from past years that made it look as though temperatures in the US had increased more than they had.  The argument was that it was possible that these same errors might have been made in other global temperature data, not that the US data matters more than the other data.

[Gabu]

You're right about the "argument", but I would also suggest that the US has the most complete temperature data covering the time period in question, 1930 to present.

Which is, however, irrelevant if the US was anomalous in its warm temperatures around the 1930s.  What really matters is whether or not this was seen in the rest of the world.

[Gabu]

What?  I didn't say that the US data was an anomaly.  I said that what matters is whether or not it was.  If it was, this means nothing.  If it was not, then this does mean something.

[Gabu]

What?  I didn't say that the US data was an anomaly.  I said that what matters is whether or not it was.  If it was, this means nothing.  If it was not, then this does mean something.

I don't mean to be argumentative but how do you know if its an anomoly if you are lacking data for the rest of the world?

I'm not saying that I do know anything... I'm talking in hypothetical terms.

[Gabu]

So do you really have enough data from the rest of the world  to say the high temps experienced in the US during the 30's was an anomaly?

Why are you still acting as if I'm saying that it was?  I don't know what else to say to convince you that that wasn't what I was saying.