Posted on 08/20/2010 2:08:07 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
And no wonder, look at the size of the La Nina! - click to enlarge
Still Cooling: Sea Surface Temperatures thru August 18, 2010
by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) measured by the AMSR-E instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite continue the fall which began several months ago. The following plot, updated through yesterday (August 18, 2010) reveals the global average SSTs continue to cool, while the Nino34 region of the tropical east Pacific remains well below normal, consistent with La Nina conditions.
(click on it for the large, undistorted version; note the global SST values have been multiplied by 10)
Dr. Spencer points out that oceanic cloud cover seems to be peaking. See the rest here
It’s gonna be one COLD winter in a lot of the U.S.
I hear it’s been a very cool summer along the West coast.
Ping.
Don't look at that, look at ME!
What are you going to believe me or facts?
Now, do as I say and riot in the streets to support me. I'm about to lose billions, possible TRILLIONS if people stop believing my fraud....er..I mean hoax...that is to say scam...no,no Inconvenient Truth....yes! that's the ticket. No one will ever suspect that I'm lying if I cleverly call it “truth” in the title.
Heh, heh, heh. I'm such a genius these rubes will never figure my plan out!!!!!”
~Al “millions of degrees” Gore
Paging Al Gore...White courtesy phone please....
We are just now starting to get some warm days here near the beach...Inland has been over a 100 for many days.
Suppose to get up to 94 today , 85 at the moment.
GISS Shaping Up To Claim 2010 as #1
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By Steve Goddard
GISS appears to be working hard to make 2010 the hottest year ever. As you can see in the graph above, they show 2010 with much more area above the 1998 line than below. I did a numerical integration of the graph above, and found that they have 2.8 times as much area with 2010 warmer than they do with 2010 cooler.
How does this compare with other data sources? HadCrut has been adjusting their data upwards, but even using their upwards adjusted numbers, their ratio of above to below area is only 0.04. Seventy times lower than GISS.
UAH has 0.12 times as much area above as they have below. Twenty-five times lower than GISS.
RSS has 0.07 times as much area above as below. Forty times lower than GISS.
The chart below shows how much of an outlier GISS is.
Conclusion: Dr. Hansen thinks that warming has continued unabated since 1998, while HadCrut, RSS and UAH think it has stopped or slowed to a crawl.
Declining global sea surface temperatures are proof-positive of global warming. /’progressive’ reasoning off
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Lawrie Ayres says:
Grasping at straws. The future looks bleak for the AGW hypothesis as poor old mother earth decides not to play ball. Add to that the suns less energetic cycles and with La Nina and a changed PDO cooling looks a possibility.
What surprises me is that the proponents of global warming have consistently ignored the influence of the sun and the natural variants stating on more than one occasion that they are basically irrelevant. Now as they observe the fact that CO2 is not the driver they have to convince themselves as well as their adherents that it is still warming, even by data manipulation. The end of the hoax is nigh.
If so, this will be the "mother of all winters" ~
I bet this is going to generate some great polarcanes!
10 - 15 degrees below normal on the San Fran peninsula. My veggies won’t ripen! Jackets every morning. Yesterday and today feel like the first real summer days.
From the comments at the web site. They are worth reading by the way.
“Negative feedback is why there is nothing to worry about in global warming. Nature keeps itself in balance. If manmade emissions take Nature out of balance it would already be showing in the data. But as Richard Lindzen continues to point out there is no imbalance in Nature showing in the data.”
Considering the small number of sunspots that have appeared within the past four years, it could very well be another bad one.
Wait a minute?
According to the AGW religion, “surface” temperatures, particularly OCEAN surface temperatures correlate mostly with heat-energy from sunlight because the oceans are better than the land at absorbing that energy.
But the AGW religion says the heat-input from the sun is a constant that does not vary enough to make, or break, heating or cooling climate cycles (thus only the “green house” matters).
Yet, here we have ocean surface temperatures cooling, globally.
Where’s a good AGW priest or bishop when you need ‘em?
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