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On the contrary, that's just what they're doing. From the #23 link:
The above bar graph shows the RSS bar heights for 2016 in blue and the corresponding heights for 1998 in red. For January, February and March, the blue bar is higher than the red bar indicating that for these three months, 2016 was warmer than 1998. However since April, the blue bar is lower than the red bar indicating that for these months, 2016 was colder than 1998. Note that the July 2016 anomaly is already lower than that of several later months in 1998. In this respect, RSS is the same as UAH6.0beta5 which, among other data sets, can also be viewed on Nick Stokes’ site.
To support your assertion you are taking one dataset and ignoring every single other dataset. If that is not cherry picking, then what is?
BTW, your link supports the notion that 2016 is still on track to be the hottest on record by virtue of how hot it was the first 6 months of the year.