Posted on 02/10/2005 6:29:48 AM PST by boris
NASA: 2004 saw record warming
By Andrew Revkin
Last year was the fourth warmest since systematic temperature measurements began around the world in the 19th century, NASA scientists said Wednesday.
Particularly high temperatures were measured over Alaska, the Caspian Sea region of Europe and the Antarctic Peninsula, while the United States was unusually cool. But the global average continued a 30-year rise that is "due primarily to increasing green-house gases in the atmosphere," said Dr. James E. Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, in New York.
The main source of such gases is smokestack and tailpipe emissions from burning coal and oil.
The highest global average was measured in 1998, when temperatures were raised by a strong cycle of El Nino in the Pacific Ocean; 2002 and 2003 were second and third warmest.
Hansen said a weak El Nino pattern was likely to make 2005 at least the second warmest year and could push it beyond 1998 and set a record.
The unusual nature of the recent warming was confirmed separately Wednesday by a new analysis of 2,000 years of indirect temperature records in tree rings, stalagmites, seabed layers and other evidence from around the Northern Hemisphere.
That study, published in the journal Nature, found that previous peaks of warming, particularly during medieval times about 1,000 years ago, were as warm as the 20th century average but that no spikes in the last 2,000 years matched the warming since 1990.
The lead author of the new paper, Anders Moberg of Stockholm University in Sweden, said it was important to recognize that natural influences on climate could either amplify or mask human-caused warming in years to come But his paper "should not be a fuel for greenhouse skeptics in their arguments," Moberg said, adding that there were ample signs that the warming was now outside nature's recent bounds.
Boy, I'm breaking out the T-shirts! God, it's hot in here!
It gets hot at NASA every year at budget time.
To think the temperature of our planet would stand still is ludicrous and ignores the last ice age.....
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I am not sure how we educate these "scientists" or did these guys get mail-order degrees?? To listen to them, you would think that the earth was formed yesterday....or are these just shills for the Kyoto mob??? Just buy them a basic earth sciences book -- we might get rid of them that way.
The US has been warming much slower (perhaps even cooling) than the rest of the world for a while. Most of the difference is because our stations are better maintained and controlled, and I think there probably are some places that intentionally fudge their figures up.
In the past, these reports of temperature increases in the atmosphere have conveniently neglected to report that the temperature increases in the atmosphere have been a result of temperature increases at ground level. Global warming proponents try to hide this fact because if temperatures have risen as a result of the greenhouse effect, the atmosphere would have warmed first. It will be interesting to see how these “scientists” will dance around this issue when the full report is released.
Oh crap! We are doomed again!
I suggest that these jerk weeds take and look at a farmers almanac. Pretty funny how the almanac can predict weather cycles when there were no talking heads back then. Usually it is as accurate if not more so than the weather channel.
As another poster pointed out. The agenda can be seen especially with the new 2006 CARB law near.
Yada, yada, yada...oh, and by the way, the sky is falling!
In very very small type at the bottom: "Research funded by the Environmental Liberation Front and Sierra Club."
In climatological terms little more than 100 years of reliable data cannot establish any real trends. A warmer 2004 may be just an aberration or the previous 100 years could have been colder than the long term average. The environmentalist wackos will certainly use these figures to predict doom for the world, but scientifically this is only a blip on the chart that cannot be interpreted as a long term trend.
TS
(yes, I am a teacher, how did you guess?)
In the story of "Chicken Little" the little chicken pointed to a bump on his head as proof that the sky was falling. He had many believers and followers as he worked his way to tell the King. However, a wise old owl actually asked Chicken Little exactly where did he get the bump on his head? [It happened to be under an apple tree with a bruised apple on the ground]. Are our scientists "Chicken Littles" going about saying that carbon dioxide emissions are the cause of the global warming? For argument, let's accept for the moment that we are on the "up" side of warming cycle.
Is there no "wise owl" to ask about the lack of consistent correlation of carbon dioxide emissions with global warming? What about the little noticed or reported correlation that the sun is a bit hotter; and that the sun has produced an extraordinary volume of sun spot activity during the current solar cycle? In addition to more energy being broadcast to the earth, the extra radiation has an effect on cloud formation; clouds affect climate. What about the effects of biomass burning and soot in the atmosphere? The paper appears to focus only on data that seems to support a single cause -- carbon dioxide emissions. Is this more junk science?
The Polar Ice Caps on Mars will melt in 1,000 because Mr. Sun is burning its Hydrogen Fuel at an expotential rate. Wait until it starts burning Helium and becomes a Red Giant.
Also China and Russia report 20 year lows in temperature.
OH NO THE SKY IS FALLING THE SKY IS FALLING.... GLOBAL WARMING GLOBAL WARMING.... WE ARE ALL GONNA DIIIIIIIIIE!!!!!! <--sarcasm
NOT!
I will start to worry when the sea level rises and inch.
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