Image talk:Instrumental Temperature Record.png

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• why 0.6 C scale??? Why not plot that chart with 2.0 C scale? not as dramatic? --Kvuo 03:35, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

  Its plotted with enough scale to fit the data. Are you a fan of whitespace? William M. Connolley 08:27, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

  why not. the other images in the series do... (1000 and 2000 yr) and some of them don't even fit the data, if the data is cooler (12000 yr) --Kvuo 13:55, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

  Errrm... you're missing the fact that they are all plotted with enough scale to show the main features. Point to another one with excessive whitespace William M. Connolley 14:33, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

• These graphs look really nice. Can anybody tell me which program is used to generate them? Msmi121 03:56, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
• Shouldn't the caption for the figure have an external link to the paper's abstract? I found it at http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1175%2F1520-0442%282003%29016%3C0206%3AHALSSA%3E2.0.CO%3B2 but I'm hesitant to whether it should be included in the figure's caption text, due to possible copyright issues. --JBatista 19:09, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What is the zero point?

This is pretty meaningless without a key showing what the zero point is related to. I suspect it is the 1960-1990 mean, but this needs to be specified! 143.252.80.100 13:59, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

The dataset is linked and it will tell you. I agree that specifying the zero would be good, for completeness, but disagree that it affects anything. Suppose we shuffled the entire graph up or down 0.1 or 0.2 oC. So what? William M. Connolley 14:30, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Beginning of record

Earliest datapoint shown is 1856, which is more than a century after the invention of the mercury thermometer. --Uncle Ed 17:18, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

yes. You can't expect a global record from one thermometer. William M. Connolley 18:07, 8 December 2006 (UTC)