Re: [Phys-L] climate change continues apace

[Bernard Cleyet <bernard@cleyet.org>]

> On 2016, Jan 16, , at 19:06, John Denker <jsd@av8n.com> wrote:
>
> To say the same thing another way:  December 2014 was roughly
> tied for the warmest-ever at the time, within the margin
> of error ... but December 2015 was very much warmer than
> that.  Take a look at figure 2 here:
>  http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/products/clisys/highlights/mhcs201512.pdf <http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/products/clisys/highlights/mhcs201512.pdf>


The first sentence in the highlights:  
- The monthly anomaly of the global average surface temperature was the warmest since 1891.



Do the authors mean 1891 was warmer, or that’s the beginning of the data?  


bc has trouble reading.