This is a big improvement. How can you have a climate blog and not report on Phil Climategate Jones recent interview? Like our good US president, the smackdown has changed his tone. H/T again to Steve McIntyre, to whom much is owed. Climate Audit.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8511670.stm

A – Do you agree that according to the global temperature record used by the IPCC, the rates of global warming from 1860-1880, 1910-1940 and 1975-1998 were identical?

And the response:

So, in answer to the question, the warming rates for all 4 periods are similar and not statistically significantly different from each other.



