2008 Global Temperature Ties As Eighth Warmest On Record

ScienceDaily ^ | Jan. 19, 2009 | ScienceDaily

[dila813]

The year 2008 tied with 2001 as the eighth warmest year on record for the Earth, based on the combined average of worldwide land and ocean surface temperatures through December, according to a preliminary analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. For December alone, the month also ranked as the eighth warmest globally, for the combined land and ocean surface temperature. The assessment is based on records dating back to 1880.

The analyses in NCDC’s global reports are based on preliminary data, which are subject to revision. Additional quality control is applied to the data when late reports are received several weeks after the end of the month and as increased scientific methods improve NCDC’s processing algorithms.

NCDC’s ranking of 2008 as the eighth warmest year compares to a ranking of ninth warmest based on an analysis by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The NOAA and NASA analyses differ slightly in methodology, but both use data from NOAA's National Climatic Data Center – the federal government's official source for climate data.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Probably just more junk science where they use July and August temperatures to fill in for November and December so they would have these figures ready for Obama’s Inaugural Extravaganzaa. What a crock!

[manc]

I’m in FL and it is flat here , well sort of so does this mean every liberal who believes this flooding move out of my state and go back home to NY,RI,MA,NJ,CT,VT,IL,OH,IO.

I wish they would

[manc]

well Nov was the coldest I have ever known in my state of FL, Dec was warmer but it’s been freezing here since then

[Cheerio]

informed Obama that he has four years to save the world from global warming as polar ice is melting and oceans will flood the earth.

Zer0bamessiah will have four years in which to run for re-election. His RAT party is proposing to rescind the 22nd Amendment so the zer0bamessiah can be KING for life.

[cherry]

"Additional quality control is applied to the data"

they will tweak until they get the result they want....

I also highly doubt any accurate measure of ocean temperatures existed or was carried out over a hundred years ago..

as Glenn Beck says....."common sense"...and my common sense as well as my thermometer tells me that we had at least 3 -10F temps overnight in December and the heaviest record snowfall.....

[machogirl]

2008 was the 8th wettest year in phx.

[R_Kangel]

I wonder where it ranks in the Coldness scale?

[dila813]

I sent them an email, it reads, “8th warmest...hahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha”

[muawiyah]

It's called "proxying in data". When hansen dropped South American and Africa he proxied in data from other areas at the same latitudes.

Those areas would be India, Australia, various islands, and, of course, the OCEAN.

I'm sure Ocean temps are a good proxy for land temps./s

[Tunehead54]

Reference bump for those pyjama bloggers who have already arrived and for my brainwashed little sister - ;-)

[HollyB]

I don’t know about you all, but I could use a little ‘global warming’ about now.

[PugetSoundSoldier]

8th warmest compared to when??

It's obvious! The 8th warmest of the current millennium!

[PugetSoundSoldier]

“The earth.....has a feeeeeever....”

Then it needs MORE COWBELL!

[Gay State Conservative]

I just shoveled a foot of global warming out of my drive way this afternoon.

[Tublecane]

“2008 Global Temperature Ties As Eighth Warmest On Record”

Let me decode that for you: it’s still getting colder, but we can’t admit it.

[MissNomer]

And the only cure . . . is more carbon credits.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Can I get an AMEN??

[Nathan Zachary]

"The PHD Grantees will, starting in 2012, reimburse the government 5% percent annually by seeking honest work, such as teaching -at least 14 hours per week."

Why on earth would you want any of these envirowacko's teaching their BS to the upcoming generations?

[BIGLOOK]

You're just wasting time and trouble posting pertinent scientific data, ETL. Everybody in Foggy Bottom and Universities across this great land knows that Global Warming is directly related to the length of chipmunk tails, shark attacks and the price of a barrel of oil on Brent on Monday morning.

The increase in any one of these factors reflects the seriousness of the problem.

And before you scoff at this as frivolity, we do have specialists who examine chipmunk tails with enthusiasm.

Now, on to the recent discovery of the combustibility of bovine flatulence.....

[headstamp 2]

Bullsh**