World Temperatures according to the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction.
Posted on 10/07/2009 9:43:31 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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World Temperatures according to the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction.
Note the steep drop over the last year.
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Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on.
No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.
A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out most of the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year's time. For all four sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.
Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse 
Let's hope those factors stop fast. Cold is more damaging than heat. The mean temperature of the planet is about 54 degrees. Humans -- and most of the crops and animals we depend on -- prefer a temperature closer to 70.
Historically, the warm periods such as the Medieval Climate Optimum were beneficial for civilization. Corresponding cooling events such as the Little Ice Age, though, were uniformly bad news.
Update 2/27: The graph for HadCRUT (above), as well as the linked graphs for
Wow! Just like that a century of global warming gone. Hahahahaha.
The embedded links are not reliable...go to the article for any that interest you...some of them do work,,,there were enough that I choose to not bother fixing.,
Oh no! We’re going back to those wacky 70s! “Global cooling” (again) and Jimmah Cartah II and the “misery index”.
This global cooling is because of Al Gore and all the people who listened to him.
By conserving, insulating, switching to CF lamps, fixing drafty windows, buying carbon credits and selecting fuel efficient cars, Al Gore and the people who listened to him have saved the planet Earth from a calamity that would have no parallel in history.
THANK YOU , AL GORE!
We should all contact him to thank him.
It will look even more profound after 2009.
No, it was Algor and his followers who saved us! Don’t make fun of him, praise him for doing just enough to stop global warming!
January 2008 – 4 sources say “globally cooler” in the past 12 months
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January 2008 was an exceptional month for our planet, with a significant cooling, especially since January 2007 started out well above normal.
January 2008 capped a 12 month period of global temperature drops on all of the major well respected indicators. I have reported in the past two weeks that HadCRUT, RSS, UAH, and GISS global temperature sets all show sharp drops in the last year.
Also see the recent post on what the last 10 years looks like with the same four metrics – 3 of four show a flat trendline.
Here are the 4 major temperature metrics compared top to bottom, with the most recently released at the top:
The purpose of this summary is to make it easy for everyone to compare the last 4 postings I’ve made on this subject.
I realize that not all the graphs are of the same scale, so my next task will be to run a combined graphic of all the data-sets on identical amplitude and time scales to show the agreements or differences such a graph would illustrate.
UPDATE: that comparison has been done here
Here is a quick comparison and average of ∆T for all metrics shown above:
| Source: | Global ∆T °C |
| HadCRUT |
- 0.595 |
| GISS | - 0.750 |
| UAH | - 0.588 |
| RSS | - 0.629 |
| Average: | - 0.6405°C |
For all four metrics the global average ∆T for January 2007 to January 2008 is: – 0.6405°C
This represents an average between the two lower troposphere satellite metrics (RSS and UAH) and the two land-ocean metrics (GISS and HadCRUT). While some may argue that they are not compatible data-sets, since they are derived by different methods (Satellite -Microwave Sounder Unit and direct surface temperature measurements) I would argue that the average of these four metrics is a measure of temperature, nearest where we live, the surface and near surface atmosphere.
UPDATE AND CAVEAT:
The website DailyTech has an article citing this blog entry as a reference, and their story got picked up by the Drudge report, resulting in a wide distribution. In the DailyTech article there is a paragraph:
“Anthony Watts compiled the results of all the sources. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C — a value large enough to erase nearly all the global warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year time. For all sources, it’s the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.”
I wish to state for the record, that this statement is not mine: “–a value large enough to erase nearly all the global warming recorded over the past 100 years”
There has been no “erasure”. This is an anomaly with a large magnitude, and it coincides with other anecdotal weather evidence. It is curious, it is unusual, it is large, it is unexpected, but it does not “erase” anything. I suggested a correction to DailyTech and they have graciously complied.
UPDATE #2 see this post from Dr. John R. Christy on the issue.
UPDATE #3 see the post on what the last 10 years looks like with the same four metrics – 3 of four show a flat trendline.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/
The Earth has warmed up a little since the Big Plunge but the overal trend is still cooling.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/wti/from:2001/to:2010/plot/wti/from:2001/to:2010/trend
Love the charts....lays it out real well!
Funny, where are the enviro-activists?
You’d think they’d be holding up these charts saying “LOOK, we told
y’all to make changes to save the world from global warming and
IT’S WORKING!!!”.
The reason for the silence is the enviro-activists are scared.
That they’ll soon be out of a job and see all the fund-raising and
federal grants to their buddies in academia shrivel up and die.
(But I fear that ain’t gonna’ happen any time soon.)
They have the Big Mo....so far...
Did you get the FReepmail I sent you?
HOOORAH! I’m going to go burn a stack of old tires in celebration!
So when is somebody going to drag that fat lying mass of loud blubber out of his palace down there in Tennessee and prosecute him for global fraud?
If you look at the first...the eye will tell you that the upward trend is "warming"...time scale is 197x to 2010....
But on the second chart we see a downward trend ...and the scale is from 2001 to 2010....
The Global Warming crowd will never use that chart....
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September 2009 Global Temperature Update for UAH and RSS 7 10 2009
September 2009 UAH Global Temperature Update +0.42 deg. C
October 7th, 2009 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
YR MON GLOBE NH SH TROPICS
2009 1 +0.304 +0.443 +0.165 -0.036
2009 2 +0.347 +0.678 +0.016 +0.051
2009 3 +0.206 +0.310 +0.103 -0.149
2009 4 +0.090 +0.124 +0.056 -0.014
2009 5 +0.045 +0.046 +0.044 -0.166
2009 6 +0.003 +0.031 -0.025 -0.003
2009 7 +0.411 +0.212 +0.610 +0.427
2009 8 +0.229 +0.282 +0.177 +0.456
2009 9 +0.424 +0.554 +0.295 +0.516
Just remember....
too cold = Global Warming
too hot = Global Warming
too rainy = Global Warming
too sunny = Global Warming
too cloudy = Global Warming
too snowy = Global Warming
too mild = Global Warming
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