Posted on 06/28/2005 12:12:03 PM PDT by cogitator
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Vol. 15, No. 1
For Additional Information: Dr. John Christy, UAH, (256) 961-7763 christy@nsstc.uah.edu Dr. Roy Spencer, UAH, (256) 961-7960 roy.spencer@msfc.nasa.gov
Global Temperature Report: May 2005
Global temperature trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.12 C per decade
May temperatures (preliminary)
Global composite temp.: +0.23 C (about 0.41 degrees Fahrenheit) above 20-year average for May.
Northern Hemisphere: +0.23 C (about 0.41 degrees Fahrenheit) above 20-year average for May.
Southern Hemisphere: +0.23 C (about 0.41 degrees Fahrenheit) above 20-year average for May.
April temperatures (revised): Global Composite: +0.41 C above 20-year average Northern Hemisphere: +0.61 C above 20-year average Southern Hemisphere: +0.22 C above 20-year average
(All temperature variations are based on a 20-year average (1979-1998) for the month reported.)
Notes on data released June 10, 2005:
UAH is reprocessing the complete global temperature dataset to include a new correction, according to Dr. John Christy, director of the Earth System Science Center (ESSC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
"The April and May 2005 results include that new correction," Christy said. "We expect to have the complete dataset available in time for the June Global Temperature Report."
Color maps of local temperature anomalies may soon be available on-line at:
http://climate.uah.edu/
The processed temperature data is available on-line at:
http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/t2lt/uahncdc.lt
As part of an ongoing joint project between UAH and NOAA, Christy and Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist in the ESSC, use data gathered by microwave sounding units on NOAA satellites to get accurate temperature readings for almost all regions of the Earth.
This includes remote desert, ocean and rain forest areas for which reliable climate data are not otherwise available.
The satellite-based instruments measure the temperature of the atmosphere from the surface up to an altitude of about eight kilometers above sea level.
Once the monthly temperature data is collected and processed, it is placed in a "public" computer file for immediate access by atmospheric scientists in the U.S. and abroad.
Neither Spencer nor Christy receives any research support or funding from oil, coal or industrial companies or organizations, or from any private or special interest groups. All of their climate research funding comes from state and federal grants or contracts.
We're doomed!
Does that account for the the heavy spring/late spring snowfall in the US & canadian Rockies ?
After looking at the data, and folding in other things I have been reading, I think that the interglacial period we are in is changing.
Whether we head for a new plateau of relative stability like we had for the last hundred or so years or if we are going back to an ice period is still up in the air.
Isn't it interesting to live on such a dynamic planet? Stuff changing all the time. Gore worried about the economic impact of a rising ocean- a retreating ocean would also be quite expensive as ports become useless and channels become too shallow.
It has been only recently that we have even thought that the Earth changed. I believe it was in the late 1800s that the true meaning of layered rocks with fossils sunk in, only recently that we saw that there were glaciers as far south as New Jersey. Finding fossils on the top of Sandia Mountain was proof positive of the Biblical flood, not evidence of vast slow tectonic movements. Now we are seeing that the Earth's climate also shifts on a massive scale. People are as responsible for this as they are for plate tectonics or the Chixulub crater.
The solution to this is of course a massive redistribution of wealth from the First World to the Third World through the Kyoto Treaty.
"The solution to this is of course a massive redistribution of wealth from the First World to the Third World through the Kyoto Treaty."
World Socialism... an answer in search of a problem™
Definitely NOT the solution.
Excuse me, but should the areas that create the most greenhouse gasses also experience the greatest temperature gains? What this says is that there is no correlation.
Excuse me, but should the areas that create the most greenhouse gasses also experience the greatest temperature gains? What this says is that there is no correlation.
That's so the oceans don't rise...
Wouldn't want this to happen:
Nightmare Vision of Underwater Britain (Global Warming Alert
But, but, whenever climate and global change comes up, this is always given as the "must do" solution! Wasn't the whole purpose of Kyoto to provide incentives and offsets for the Developed World to drastically cut back on CO2 (using fuel to make things) while allowing expansion in the Third World, with China, India and a few other places (mostly former Soviet Bloc countries) being exempt from the restrictions?
And cutting back on CO2 was the only way to stop the climate changes that would result in entire island nations being flooded?
Well if geopolitical shifts in the ownership of capital won't stop climate change, what will?
Or will we have to rely on our human tendency toward resiliency and adaptation and faith to get through whatever is coming?
Nope. The atmosphere effectively circulates greenhouse gases. There might be a slight barrier (more important for SO2, smoke/soot and aerosols) at the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), making the Northern Hemisphere air mass different than the Southern Hemisphere, but for CO2, over a few years, the atmospheric concentration is essentially the same everywhere.
Sea level rise due to melting of continental (Antarctic/Greenland) ice sheets is going to be minimal unless the ice sheets collapse. If that happens it wouldn't be minimal. This isn't a concern for several decades (therefore not in my lifetime), but by the end-of-the-century, it's been discussed as a potential problem. A lot depends on unforeseeable technological advances vis-a-vis energy production.
The solution to this is of course a massive redistribution of wealth from the First World to the Third World One World UN bureaucrats and assorted societal parasites through the Kyoto Treaty.
The needless suffering of many so-called "Third World" peoples is nothing but a cover story for the truly heartless and greedy people who have hijacked the mission of most of the NGOs pushing for Keyto and similar scams.
Are you sure? Looking at the Mercator(sp?) projection that you posted, the warmer anomalies seem to be more frequent in both the far north and far south, which in that projection grossly distorts their relative size the closer one gets to the poles. The cooler areas are more frequent in the mid latitudes, both North & South, which is far more accurate scale than the warm areas that are exaggerated in size due to their distance from the equator in that projection.
Yes, and naturally all global warming and related conditions are directly caused by humans! It's even gotten so bad that humans are causing the destruction of the whole solar system because of their SUV's, large dairy herd cow farts and using third world slave labor to build their sneakers.
Why just look at the havoc being wreaked upon the very solar system, as we speak:
Sun: More activity since 1940 than in previous 1150 years, combined- this obviously coincides with our "industrial pollution" in the US and has affected even the Sun! We must take all our corruptly gotten wealth and build a sunscreen to help shade our brother and sister planets from our selfishly caused increase in solar radiation.
Mercury: Unexpected polar ice discovered, along with a surprisingly strong intrinsic magnetic field... for a supposedly “dead” planet. See, the Evil Americans are warming the Earth to the detriment of planets like Mercury, and soon Mercury will be an ice ball and will shatter from the cold, thereby causing an imbalance in the Solar System and causing its eventual destruction unless we act now!
Venus: 2500% increase in auroral brightness, and substantive global atmospheric changes in less than 30 years- obviously more proof that evil humans have polluted the other planets, since these changes coincide with the increases in population, wealth and pollution here on Earth!
Mars: “Global Warming,” huge storms, disappearance of polar icecaps- not being content with destroying our own planet, we are destroying Mars' ice caps also! We must buy massive refrigerators for the Martians so they can re-freeze their ice caps and keep their countries from being inundated by the flooding such as we are experiencing here on Earth right now! Or at least, real soon now!
Jupiter: Over 200% increase in brightness of surrounding plasma clouds - obviously caused by human pollution and selfishness, by self centered humans in North America. While Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System, dwarfing all other planets combined, human pollution, specifically from the rich North American continent, is destroying this wonderful, innocent giant!
Saturn: Major decrease in equatorial jet stream velocities in only ~20 years, accompanied by surprising surge of X-rays from equator - again, all coinciding with the increase in population, pollution and warming cause by humans on the Earth! Specifically, those humans inhabiting certain parts of the North American continent. We must buy lead lined windbreakers to distribute to all Saturnians so they won't be chilled by the jet streams and irradiated by the X-rays. It's the least we can do. It's for the children!
Uranus: Very large changes in brightness, increased global cloud activity - obviously human caused pollution and warming is penetrating to the far reaches of the Solar System. Again, we must supply sunglasses and umbrellas for the poor of yerAnus, that our North American pollution is affecting.
Neptune: 40% increase in atmospheric brightness - and of course women, children and minority Neptunians are being the hardest hit. We must confiscate all North American wealth and buy sunglasses for these poor unfortunate Neptunians, that we are so carelessly blinding with our human pollution caused brightening.
Pluto: 300% increase in atmospheric pressure, even as Pluto recedes farther from the Sun - proof that careless, unthinking humans are driving even planets away from and out of the Solar System to get away from human pollution! We must take our wealth and buy pressure suits for the people of Pluto, so they will bring their planet back into the Solar fold and restore the planetary balance that was there before humans- specifically mid-continent North American humans - caused these major Solar System wide disruptions.
We must eliminate Evil Humans from the Solar System - or at least from the middle of the North American continent- if we are to save it, if it still is indeed possible to save anything. The above hard scientific evidence shows conclusively that humans are destroying the entire Solar System! The only way to solve this is by signing the "Andromeda Treaty" now, and transferring all human wealth (or at least that of all mid-North Americans) to the Alpha Centauri galaxy, where it will be fed into a black hole so it will not affect our Solar System. [Just feeding massive amounts of tax dollars into the black hole in Washington, DC, has not been enough.]
Sign the online petition to eliminate human beings and transfer all North American human wealth to the Alpha Centauri galaxy now! It is the only scientifically proven way to save the Solar System!
Or, we could just use our brains and kill all the liberals.
If you look at the data for Greenland, there is about as much of it where the ice is getting thicker as there is where the ice is getting thinner. There isn't any reliable data on the Antarctic.
I like your thinking, hadit2here.
Let's start a solar power development company, and hit the UN and USA for a solar depletion allowance in case the Sun goes out and we have to move to a new star. We'll promise to redistribute a portion of this money for third world Debt Relief and food aid programs.
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