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Global Surface Temperature Comparison: NASA GISS 1880 – 2022 | Anomaly vs. Absolute Temperature
Watts Up With That? ^ | 17 November 2023 | STAFF & NASA

Posted on 11/17/2023 11:48:41 AM PST by Red Badger

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These two graphs show data from NASA GISTEMP, which is most often cited global temperature anomaly graph from the NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) for the entire globe, but done two ways. The top graph shows the magnified temperature anomaly, and the bottom graph shows the actual temperature as measured on the scale of normal human weather experience, typically 0° to 120° Fahrenheit.

The point of this display is to illustrate that if there were not statistical techniques such as anomaly analysis and scale amplification, humans would not likely be able to detect the mild rise in temperature since 1880. The bottom graph of absolute temperature shows this clearly and is essentially flat.

The top graph shows what is commonly displayed in the media, which is highly magnified. More details are here: New WUWT Global Temperature Feature: Anomaly vs. Real-World Temperature


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NOTE THE SCALES ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE GRAPHS AND THE RANGE..............
1 posted on 11/17/2023 11:48:41 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: All

We are all going to die (again)

Video
1983. NBC News warns of Catastrophe climate change by the 1990’s
https://rumble.com/v3sxocp-1983.-nbc-news-warns-of-catastrophe-climate-change-by-the-1990s.html


2 posted on 11/17/2023 11:50:32 AM PST by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: Red Badger

There is no such thing as global mean surface temperature. Dr. Michael Crichton pointed that out in his book State of Fear years ago. Just more of the climate BS.


3 posted on 11/17/2023 11:52:26 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Captain Peter Blood

10 real data points and 14 billion conjecture. What a joke.


4 posted on 11/17/2023 11:57:20 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Red Badger

It does clarify matters a good deal. Either the Earth is warming or it is cooling or it is staying the same. Where’s my grant money?


5 posted on 11/17/2023 12:02:09 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Red Badger

This is bad, if things continue on this trajectory we may only have another million years before things get noticeable warmer.


6 posted on 11/17/2023 12:05:03 PM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: Red Badger

But, but, but...it’s THREE WHOLE DEGREES! (Sob, sniffle)
From the Industrial Revolution until now, and all the industry in that time, we’ve only increased 3 degrees. Remarkable. The earth must have some amazing recuperative properties to have kept the increase to such a minimal level.


7 posted on 11/17/2023 12:05:25 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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To: janetjanet998

Well, ten years later, 1993, I don’t sense ant
y change.

Oh, it’s 2023? Oops, my bad. That massive change? I still don’t sense much. Yes, it was 11°C (52°F) yesterday, but certainly not a record. It is called a CHINOOK! Thank God for Chinooks!


8 posted on 11/17/2023 12:08:38 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: Billthedrill

I and many of my FR colleagues will support your quest for grant money from our illustrious government...but ONLY if the planet is warming, cooling or staying the same. any other status is a non-starter. good luck.


9 posted on 11/17/2023 12:08:38 PM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: Flaming Conservative

We are still coming out of the “Little Ice Age” period that ended in the mid 1800s.


10 posted on 11/17/2023 12:10:29 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Red Badger

Good catch...


11 posted on 11/17/2023 12:12:49 PM PST by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: Red Badger

You’re going to need to expand the graph by at least 2 degrees to show the predicted temperature in 2080. 🌡️


12 posted on 11/17/2023 12:19:24 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

13 posted on 11/17/2023 12:20:19 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

That was a great book. I have to say, I was completely amused and impressed by the concept of bad guys who give Chase to their enemies, not in black Lincolns, or Cadillacs, but in Toyota Prius‘s!

He was a great author. Died too soon…

It was interesting to read about the making of the movie “Andromeda strain“ where the movie, pretty much reflected the state of art of pathogen discovery at the time (1971) and Crichton was so adamant about realism, that he had to fight with the backers of the movie because he swelled the budget of the movie by buying actual state of the art biological research equipment .

Wikipedia said: “A 2003 publication by the Infectious Diseases Society of America noted that The Andromeda Strain is the “most significant, scientifically accurate, and prototypic of all films of this [killer virus] genre ... it accurately details the appearance of a deadly agent, its impact, and the efforts at containing it, and, finally, the work-up on its identification and clarification on why certain persons are immune to it.”


14 posted on 11/17/2023 12:22:26 PM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Michael Crichton, author and filmmaker known for Jurassic Park and the television show E.R., says:

“Is the globe warming? Yes. Is the greenhouse effect real? Yes. Is carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, being increased by men? Yes. Would we expect this warming to have an effect? Yes. Do human beings in general affect the climate? Yes.”


15 posted on 11/17/2023 12:24:00 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: Flaming Conservative

Throughout many glacial periods life on earth flourished between glacial times. During glacial periods it was tough for life on earth, very tough. Geologically the warming periods were brief and glacial periods long and hard.

An interglacial or interglacial period is the warmer period of time between ice ages where glaciers retreat and sea levels rise. Over the last 450,000 years, glacials have lasted anywhere from 70,000 to 90,000 years whereas interglacials last approximately 10,000 years.

Their is a climate crisis in our near future. It is called “The Next Ice Age.” Note: when I say near future, it could be one or two thousand years or perhaps less. It will happen!


16 posted on 11/17/2023 12:30:45 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-oilfield roughneck-drilling fluiids tech-geologist-pilot-instructor-pharmacist)
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To: cpdiii

Absolutely right on the money, in fact the last interglacial was even much warmer than we are now.

And yes, as always in the cycle, we are late for the very real ice age that is coming soon in the cycle.


17 posted on 11/17/2023 12:53:05 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Red Badger
Well within the natural range of temperature variation.

We've been in a period of global warming since 1715 or so, the nadir of the Little Ice Age. In the 13th Century, English monasteries were able to grow vinifera grapes. By 1599, Shakespeare was able to have the Globe Theater dismantled over Christmas and the heavy timbers hauled across the frozen Thames.

One can agree that CO2 contributes to global warming. But the question is, by how much? There is no convincing explanation for the several centuries long period temperature oscillations that created the Bronze Age Warm Period, Roman Warm Period and Medieval Warm Period as well as the Little Ice Age. The best "fit" is variation in solar activity associated with sunspots. But the periodicity of the changes and their causes are poorly understood, which means we could spend trillions on useless "green" solutions to a problem we are not causing.

18 posted on 11/17/2023 12:54:57 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: Red Badger

Temperatures began to rise in the mid 1930’s, about the same time that cities began to expand and began to pave their roads.

Temperatures have not gone up. Temperature measurements have gone up. The measurements can be affected by more than just temperature. They can be affected by changes in the areas surrounding the measuring devices that capture and store heat.


19 posted on 11/17/2023 12:55:26 PM PST by CarmichaelPatriot (Recovering Kalifornian... Loving Alabama!)
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To: Red Badger

Well done—exactly the way they teach it in this classic:

https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/0393310728

The book had a major influence on my life—it was how I figured out that just about every “expert” out there was a scumbag liar.


20 posted on 11/17/2023 12:57:25 PM PST by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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