Reply to comment by David E. Parker et al. on 'Unresolved issues with the assessment of multidecadal global land surface temperature trends'

摘要

Pielke et al. [2007a] identified a variety of problems affecting the accuracy or appropriate level of confidence of the global historical land surface temperature data set, as applied to estimates of global temperature trends, and called for several measures to be taken to improve this network for this purpose. Parker et al. [2009], while acknowledging the importance of making improvements to the network and its data, take issue with two particular aspects of our analysis. We are grateful for the opportunity to engage in further discussion regarding these important issues.