Quite a difference of opinion between Dr. Hubert Lamb and the subsequent director of
Alarm Central* - a.k.a. the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (HADCRU)- the
infamous post-whitewash-reinstated
Dr. Phil Jones. Also curious, Dr. Lamb said in 1972 that the global temperature trend
had been slowly dipping for the past 20 years. But a
plot today of the 'same' HADCRU data shows an increasing trend from 1952-1972:
* in association with
NASA/GISSUPDATE: Dr. Lamb was also the source of the paleoclimate graph used in the 1990 & 1995 IPCC reports which shows an inconvenient hotter Medieval Warming Period than the present. The following IPCC report threw away Dr. Lamb's graph in favor of Michael Mann's hockey stick graph, which served to eliminate the Medieval Warming Period. This was the purpose of Mann's hockey stick, as stated in the climategate emails, to eliminate or "contain the MWP" according to Mann.
UPDATE 2: A 1974
newspaper article interview of Dr. Lamb says that the global temperature had dropped by 1/3 to 1/2 of a degree C in the last 30 years, followed by "
The decline of prevailing temperatures since about 1945 appears to be the longest-continued downward trend since temperature records began," says Professor Hubert H Lamb of the University of East Anglia in Great Britain. However, a plot today of the 'same' HADCRU data from 1944-1974 also shows an increasing trend:
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