I calibrated my thermometer to the climate models but…?

Their answer? You're questioning our data and methods. You must be a denier in the pocket of the oil companies.

Not sure why you would calibrate your thermometer to a GCM. Calibration is usually done with actual measurements, not calculated output.

Where are you getting your figures from? Yes, you gave links, but not all of those numbers appear in the spreadsheets. For RSS, they give no figures at all north of 82.5 or south of -70, and the "-0.69" number is not in any of the February numbers. The "-0.11" figure is also mis-attributed: the actual location is not the North Pole, but 60-82.5˚N.

UAH also extrapolates to the poles, it does not have any data for them. The figures ought to be taken with a grain of salt, as, if I'm not mistaken, their site gives no in-depth explanation of the procedure behind this.

Kind of ironic considering the crap that GISS gets.

Also, those are NOT unadjusted data.

(And a quick comment too, since this was a fairly recent change in UAH: their base period is now a full 30 year period, from 1981 to 2010. Spencer discusses the change at his blog below.)

http://www.drroyspencer.com/2011/01/dec-2010-uah-g...

Edit: RSS doesn't report polar values. UAH does, and you cited them. Again though, the satellite doesn't actually orbit that far toward the poles, just short under 10˚.

But thanks for the update.

Could you at least TRY to at least ask a question and not just rant? You didn't calibrate anything and I doubt you have the foggiest idea why anyone would adjust temperatures in the first place. You could have asked a real question that would have been more effective as rhetoric and a lot less of a rant.

I think you should just combine the two polinue charges and you shoul be ready to go.

Put the climate model in the garbage can, garbage in garbage out. When you have a group determined to prove their beliefs, it's like a religion, and religion and logic just don't Jive.