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  • noun a unit of temperature equal to one-thousandth of a degree

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  • We had drifts of half a millidegree per hour continuing for weeks even though the thermistors were kept at a stable temperature.

    The HO-83 Hygro- thermometer « Climate Audit 2007

  • I am currently doing millidegree temperature control of navigation instruments and I am finding more error sources than I ever imagined. steven mosher

    Central Park: Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? « Climate Audit 2007

  • The basic relevant facts are that carbon emissions are not the principal, nor even a measurable, factor in global warming, and despite dire forecasts and ever-increasing carbon emissions in the world - especially as the economies of China and India, representing 40 percent of the world's population, expand by 6 to 10 percent each year - the world has not grown a millidegree warmer since the start of this millennium.

    National Review Online 2009

  • Ocean heat content would be easier to determine if it didn’t require determining temperature with one millidegree precision and accuracy, not to mention measuring the depth accurately.

    Unthreaded #11 « Climate Audit 2007

  • I do have some idea how difficult it is to accurately measure temperature with millidegree precision and it never ceases to amaze me how otherwise intelligent people think it’s possible to accurately and precisely extract a few millidegrees/year signal from a very noisy record even in the absence of significant systematic error, especially when there is no real standard reference method for comparison.

    Juckes Reply #2 « Climate Audit 2007

  • - especially as the economies of China and India, representing 40% of the world's population, expand by six to 10 percent each year - the world has not grown a millidegree warmer since the start of this millennium.

    Latest Articles Canada 2009

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