Posted on 01/18/2018 2:31:35 PM PST by Ennis85
Manmade climate change is now dwarfing the influence of natural trends on the climate, scientists say.
Last year was the second or third hottest year on record - after 2016 and on a par with 2015, the data shows.
But those two years were affected by El Niño - the natural phenomenon centred on the tropical Pacific Ocean which works to boost temperatures worldwide.
Take out this natural variability and 2017 would probably have been the warmest year yet, the researchers say.
The acting director of the UK Met Office, Prof Peter Stott, told BBC News: "It's extraordinary that temperatures in 2017 have been so high when there's no El Niño. In fact, we’ve been going into cooler La Niña conditions.
"Last year was substantially warmer than 1998 which had a very big El Niño.
"It shows clearly that the biggest natural influence on the climate is being dwarfed by human activities – predominantly CO₂ emissions."
Figures were published on Thursday by the world’s three main agencies monitoring global temperatures: the UK Met Office and the two US organisations - the US space agency (Nasa) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa).
Their datasets are compiled from many thousands of temperature measurements taken across the globe, from all continents and all oceans.
Temperatures for 2017 and 2015 are virtually identical.
Nasa rates 2017 the second hottest year, and Noaa and the Met Office judge it to be the third hottest since records began in 1850.
The Met Office HadCRUT4 global temperature series shows that 2017 was 0.99C (±0.1C) above "pre-industrial" levels – that’s taken as the average over the period 1850-1900.
It was 0.38 (±0.1C) above the 1981-2010 average.
The Exeter-based agency calculates that the El Niño event spanning 2015-2016 contributed around 0.2C to the annual average for 2016.
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As an earlier article posted here a couple of months ago pointed out, La Nina is further south than usual this year, almost down to the latitude of El Nino. So some weather forecasters predicted that it wouldn’t all that cold.
Nothing to do with climate change.
Could really use some of that heat in 2018.....so far, at least in Florida, this is the coldest year in history. I guess it all evens out.
What slogan should we use? We’re all gonna die or we’re all gonna fry? Will snowflakes melt?
Entering a Grand Solar Minimum, so get ready for a buckling of the jet stream with extreme weather, but all trending colder.
Last Ice Age had an ice-free corridor in warmer Alaska. And just what caused those massive glaciers to melt?
Yes, they deliberately fudge the data. They won’t admit is was warmer during the Roman and medieval maximums.
The Fundamental Deception Of Climate Science (and creation of hockey stick): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RwjYkYCXnU
https://www.iceagenow.info/
https://realclimatescience.com/
for daily updates:
https://www.youtube.com/user/Suspicious0bservers
https://www.youtube.com/user/MyanmarLiving
Don’t forget the Minoan Warm Period.
Three warm periods where the temperature was warmer than it is now - and civilization flourished.
If Stott knows what El Nino and La Nina are, he should be able to understand that “global warming” is nothing but BS and a scam on the taxpayers.
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