esoteric17,

On your reposting of the SST charts for NOAA and HADCRU, providence/provenance had it that HADCRU finished their auditing and review of data and methodologies [necessary to make sure no one who illegally got into their computer systems and not altered information. The good thing is that but for slight re-computations due late data, sometimes trickling in years later, nothing of even the minutest of changes are seen and with the Oct-09 to Jan-10, has now pulled up to have the comparable period of data as NOAA. Here the updated charts with some refreshed labels... moderate El Nino still, all that vapor turning snow, and a record January... things are not looking good for homo retardus, the next generation of homo sapiens sapiens, under threat of book burning to reoccur in the present decade, for there is so much inconvenient truth going around.







Point of most reflection, per HADSST the Northern and Southern Oceans are in temperature equilibrium... 0.437 C anomaly, up 0.07C from last year and a 0.16C increase per decade, not much behind the IPCC global long term prediction of 0.2C/Decade... goes in leaps and bounds, but it's happening, no doubt. And for those wondering, NOAA weight global temperatures for land and sea separately and proportionally... most ocean with most heat storage is down south... the thermohaline circulation pumping it north, to where 90% of the humans live. The simple view of that global conveyor belt.