Hi OronD,

So you are saying that Goddard took the average of one of the decades between 1957 and 2006 and multiplied it by 5 to get to their 1.55 F rise in 50 years while the un-named studies found a 3.8 F rise between 1958 and 2008?  I don't know, Oron.  That seems so unlike GISS and the assumed two year shift in spread seems unlikely to produce such a difference.

As a third possibility, did it ever occur to you that one or both statistics are incorrect?  How about a fourth possibility that the author of the "Antarctic Ice Shelf Falling Apart" article either got the 3.8 F wrong or made it up?  I tend to belief NASA's data over the un-named studies.