What got me snipped from wattsupwiththat.com - 2

This time two comments have been vanished from the thread "July was also the 329th consecutive month of positive upwards adjustment to the U.S. temperature record by NOAA/NCDC" at WUWT, either before posting or by deletion after my comment had already been appeared in the thread. Both comments were in reply to comments made by user "Smokey". I don't know why they were vanished. Perhaps, one of the WUWT moderators (e.g., dbs - David B Stealey, h/t Rob Decker) felt my replies may have exposed Smokey's suggestions coming with his comments as embarrassing nonsense.

The first of my comments that got vanished was in reply to a graph posted by Smokey, which he described as the global satellite record of temperature measurements:

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Smokey writes:

USHCN is only the U.S. ["adjusted"] data. But the central question concerns global warming. So let’s look at the global satellite record, which is by far the most accurate temperature measurement.

and gives us following link to look at:

ftp://ftp.ssmi.com/msu/graphics/tls/plots/rss_ts_channel_tls_global_land_and_sea_v03_3.png

I suppose Smokey shows us this temperature record, which has been derived from satellite retrievals of radiation data by applying mathematical algorithms with assumptions (since satellites do not measure temperatures) to assert that the global temperature has been decreasing over the satellite period.

Smokey is right. There is a negative temperature trend in the lower stratosphere over the whole satellite period. The graph he shows is for the lower stratosphere. The observed temperature change in the lower stratosphere has happened in parallel to the statistically significant positive temperature trend in the troposphere and at the surface over the same time period. The graph shown by Smokey is empirical data, which are consistent with the global warming at the surface and in the troposphere and show what has been predicted. Global warming in the troposphere comes with lower stratospheric cooling. That is the prediction. The data are in agreement with the physical explanation, which attributes those trends to the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere.

Thank you for showing this, Smokey.

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The second snipped reply was to a comment by Smokey, where he showed a figure with a temperature trend:

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Smokey wrote at August 19, 2012 at 8:52 pm:

Some folks didn’t like my previous chart. So they will probably hate this one.,

referring following link: http://www.friendsofscience.org/assets/documents/FOS%20Essay/HadCrut3Global.jpg

Yes, this is totally destroying “the global warming hoax”, isn’t it. /sarc

What about following one?

http://www.skepticalscience.com/graphics.php?g=47

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