Temperature records
This thread is for discussion of climatic temperature records, global and regional.
Climate Conversation Group
Taking the heat out of global warming
For the first time in history, people shouting “the end is nigh” are somehow
For the first time in history, people shouting “the end is nigh” are somehow
the sane ones, while those of us who say it is not are now the lunatics.
Latest climate models v. reality
As the models continue to leave actual temperature readings in their dust, sizeable warming halted about 1995 — although it might resume at any time. It must hasten to have any hope of catching up with the predictions.
If you claim warming continues, we want evidence of continued warming — eminently reasonable. Making us wait for 17 years for that evidence invites us to doubt you.
Claiming that warming hasn't stopped is the same as claiming it has — and both are ridiculous, for nobody knows the future. The best you can do is describe the past.
Click graph for larger version.
Seventy years is plenty
http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2010/09/seventy-years-is-plenty/
Temperature adjustments science or art?
http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2010/09/temperature-adjustments-science-or-art/
Land Temperature Records UHI
MEDIA RELEASE
Hot cities
If you thought our cities are getting warmer, you’re right.
Bureau of Meteorology researchers have found that daytime temperatures in our cities are warming more rapidly than those of the surrounding countryside and that this is due to the cities themselves.
Bureau climate scientist, Belinda Campbell, said “we’ve known for a while that city night time temperatures have been warmer because the heat’s retained after sunset just that much longer than the countryside, and that city daytime temperatures have been warming too.”
“But what we didn’t know was whether city day time temperatures were also warmer because of the urbanisation or whether it was due to the overall warming of the planet associated with the enhanced greenhouse effect.”
http://www.bom.gov.au/announcements/media_releases/ho/20101013.shtml
h/t Ian Wishart and WUWT
The Great Dying of Thermometers
Why GISS Temperatures Are Too High
‘GISS is the only temp index which shows significant warming since year 2000′
‘Their algorithm creates an imaginary hot spot at the North Pole…They appear to be using at least two steps of extrapolation/interpolation – which compounds error. In other words, their entire 21st century warming story is based on a defective interpretation of the Arctic.’
Where Will GISS Find Future Warming?
Posted on October 24, 2010 by stevengoddard
Much of the reported warming from the 20th century was due to upwards adjustments of recent temperatures, and downwards adjustments of older temperatures.
This worked pretty well until satellites showed up and provided some badly needed checks and balances on the adjusters. Since 1990 it has been tougher to justify any further upwards adjustments to the data.
Steven Mosher’s Blog
In the debate over the accuracy of the global temperature nothing is more evident than errors in the location data for stations in the GHCN inventory. That inventory is the primary source for all the temperature series. One question is “do these mistakes make a difference?” If one believes as I do that the record is largely correct, then it’s obvious that these mistakes cannot make a huge difference. If one believes, as some do, that the record is flawed, then it’s obvious that these mistakes could be part of the problem. Up until know that is where these two sides of the debate stand. Believers convinced that the small mistakes cannot make a difference; and dis-believers holding that these mistakes could in fact contribute to the bias in the record. Before I get to the question of whether or not these mistakes make a difference, I need to establish the mistakes, show how some of them originate, correct them where I can and then do some simple evaluations of the impact of the mistakes. This is not a simple process. Throughout this process I think we can say two things that are unassailable: 1. the mistakes are real. 2. we simply don’t know if they make a difference. Some believe they cannot (but they haven’t demonstrated that) and some believe they will (but they haven’t demonstrated that). The demonstration of either position requires real work. Up to now no one has done this work.
This matters primarily because to settle the matter of UHI stations must be categorized as urban or rural. That entails collecing some information about the character of the station, say it’s population or the characteristics of the land surface. So, location matters. Consider Nightlights which Hansen2010 uses to categorize stations into urban and rural. That determination is made by looking up the value of a pixel in an image. If it bright, the site is urban. If its dark (mis-located in the ocean) the site is rural.
[Sophisticated analysis of GHCN and UHI at this Blog]
Phil Jones and the Chinese weather station corruption
November 7, 2010
by Anthony Watts
**BREAKING NEWS**
New Retreat from Global Warming Data by Australian Gov Bureau
Article by John O’Sullivan and Val Majkus (via email from John O’Sullivan)
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Global warmers in full retreat as Aussie experts admit growing doubts about their own methods as new study shows one third of temperatures not reliable.
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) admits it was wrong about urban heating effects as a professional statistical analysis by Andrew Barnham exposes a BOM claim that “since 1960 the mean temperature in Australia has increased by about 0.7 °C”; the BOM assertion has no empirical scientific basis.
Barnham, who spent 8 years working in emerging South Asian economies building high volume transaction processing systems, applied a high-tech statistical technique very different from an earlier well-publicized probe by fellow Aussie, Ken Stewart on his blog, Ken’s Kingdom.
Stewart grabbed headlines in what became known as the Australiagate controversy after his findings were featured on popular science blog, Watts Up With That. Stewart exposed dubious BOM adjustments to temperature data that bore little or no resemblance to actual or raw past temperatures.
Like Stewart, Barnham paid particular attention to BOM’s methodology in addressing what is known as the Urban Heat Island Effect (UHI), a proven phenomenon whereby thermometers measuring temperatures in towns and cities become unduly influenced by extra ‘background’ heating from buildings, road surfaces, machinery, etc. It’s in the UHI adjustments that the greatest discrepancies appear to lie.
Continues….
val majkus says:
November 11, 2010 at 10:43 am
Interesting Guest post by Ed Thurstan of Sydney, Australia
Synopsis
This study shows that the NOAA maintained GHCN V2 database contains errors in calculating a Mean temperature from a Maximum and a Minimum. 144 years of data from 36 Australian stations are affected.
Means are published when the underlying Maximums and/or Minimums have been rejected.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/11/10/gross-data-errors-in-ghcn-v2-for-australia/#more-27653
GISS : Fighting For #1
Posted on November 13, 2010 by stevengoddard
During October, RSS showed a large drop of 0.232 from September. It appeared that the battle for 2010 as hottest year ever was doomed. 2010 is turning out much cooler than 1998, with no hope of catching up.
But just when the battle appeared lost, the fighters at GISS got their second wind. Instead of a large drop in October temperature anomalies, they found a 0.08 rise! This keeps 2010 well ahead of their hottest year ever – 2005.
There’s an interesting post at Jo Nova’s http://joannenova.com.au/2010/10/bom-giss-have-record-setting-bugs-affecting-a-million-square-miles/
Chris Gillham
Western Australia (WA) covers 2.5 million square kilometers (1 million square miles, about a third as big as the USA). The average of all WA stations over one month last year was adjusted up by as much as a gobsmacking 0.5 degrees due to a database “bug” – which contributed to August 2009 being the hottest August on record?! That’s one heck of a bug!
posted on October 27 2010
Chris also says
While researching the GISS adjustments, I noticed yet another odd data shift that left me wondering about the reliability of temperature recordings. I had listed the 2009 monthly mean temperatures on October 4, 2010, for Kalgoorlie-Boulder, but when I returned to the GISS website database the following day, October 5, I found that every month in 2009 for that location had been shifted up by .1 C.
This means the newly adjusted GISS record shows Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s average mean for Spring 2009 was 20.6C, not 20.5 C anymore, so this historic mining town’s seasonal temperature record is now 1.2 degrees higher than the reality of the BoM records.
Chris has done a huge amount of work and his blog which relates to Western Aust is well worth a visit
http://www.waclimate.net/
He’s also examined pre 1910 temps and compared
Although the pre-1910 temperature recordings in each location examined below are considered by the Bureau of Meteorology to be unreliable compared to the regulated post-1910 data, it is still worth comparing these earliest temperatures with the most recent “corrected” data from 1979-2008 in the 20 locations.
Minima
For all 20 locations, the average mean minimum rose .44 degrees C from ~1900 to 1979-2008
For 10 coastal locations, the average mean minimum rose .29 degrees C from ~1900 to 1979-2008
For 10 inland locations, the average mean minimum rose .58 degrees C from ~1900 to 1979-2008
Maxima
For all 20 locations, the average mean maximum rose .48 degrees C from ~1900 to 1979-2008
For 10 coastal locations, the average mean maximum rose .86 degrees C from ~1900 to 1979-2008
For 10 inland locations, the average mean maximum rose .10 degrees C from ~1900 to 1979-2008
and check out Chris’ Analysis and Forecast page for some great links
http://www.waclimate.net/bureau.html
including BOM links and ‘Contrary Evidence’
I know you must be sick of me and temperatures but seem to be stuck on that todayNot at all. You always have something interesting to say. -RTmore on UHI
http://www.warwickhughes.com/hoyt/uhi.htm
and the essay about half way down the page:
Since satellite measurements began in 1979, the world’s population has approximately doubled leading to an UHI signal of 0.67 C over land and 0.19 C globally. The observed surface warming is about 0.36 C over the same time period, so a substantial portion may be just uncorrected UHI effects. Other effects include land use changes, increased darkness of vegetation, direct heat from fossil fuel burning, a brighter sun, changes in cosmic ray intensity, soot on snow, more soot in the atmosphere, and greenhouse gases (and this list is not exhaustive). There are many competing theories for the recent warming and some of them do a better job at explaining the observations than do greenhouse gases.
The land surface stations were designed to provide local climatology. They were not designed to detect climate change. Quality control of the surface network is inadequate.
And ain’t that right!
UAH and UHI
Posted on December 16, 2010 by Anthony Watts
Note: clearly satellites can see urban heat, as demonstrated by this recent paper unveiled at the 2010 AGU meeting by NASA. See: Satellites Image the Urban Heat Islands in the Northeast. It can also be demonstrated that the UHI biases the thermometers upwards. As cities grow, so does the increased bias. In that paper NASA says:
The compact city of Providence, R.I., for example, has surface temperatures that are about 12.2 °C (21.9 °F) warmer than the surrounding countryside…
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/12/16/uah-and-uhi/
The Urban Heat Island Effect Distorts Global Temperatures
Written by Dr. Tim Ball | May 17 2011
How much do calculations of global temperatures represent the real temperature of the Earth? Every day, new stories appear about temperature records with errors or deliberate omissions. Essex, McKitrick, and Andresen’s article suggests that such a creature doesn’t exist. An important part of the debate is something called the urban heat island effect (UHIE)
History of the UHIE Problem
Physical Cause
Evidence
http://climatechangedispatch.com/home/8996-the-urban-heat-island-effect-distorts-global-temperatures
New paper finds urban heat islands cause up to 44% of total recorded warming
A paper published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research finds that urban heat islands account for up to 44% of the recorded warming in cities in east China over the period of 1981-2007.
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 116, D14113, 12 PP., 2011
Observed surface warming induced by urbanization in east China
Key Points:
The rapid urbanization has significant impacts on temperature over east China
A new method was developed to dynamically classify urban and rural stations
Comparison of the trends of UHI effects by using OMR and UMR approaches
Xuchao Yang et al
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-paper-finds-urban-heat-islands.html
New paper: UHI, alive and well in China
Posted on July 28, 2011 by Anthony Watts
http://www.agu.org/journals/jd/jd1114/2010JD015452/2010jd015452-op04-tn-350x.jpg
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 116, D14113, 12 PP., 2011
doi:10.1029/2010JD015452
Observed surface warming induced by urbanization in east China
Key Points
* The rapid urbanization has significant impacts on temperature over east China
* A new method was developed to dynamically classify urban and rural stations
* Comparison of the trends of UHI effects by using OMR and UMR approaches
Xuchao Yang, Shanghai Typhoon Institute of China Meteorological Administration, Shanghai, China Institute of Meteorological Sciences, Zhejiang Meteorological Bureau, Hangzhou, China Yiling Hou, Shanghai Climate Center, Shanghai, China, Baode Chen, Shanghai Typhoon Institute of China Meteorological Administration, Shanghai, China
Monthly mean surface air temperature data from 463 meteorological stations, including those from the 1981–2007 ordinary and national basic reference surface stations in east China and from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction and National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCEP/NCAR) Reanalysis, are used to investigate the effect of rapid urbanization on temperature change.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/07/28/new-paper-uhi-alive-and-well-in-china/
New paper: Urban Heat Island effect accounts for 56% of warming in urban areas over past 55 years
A paper published last week in the journal Atmospheric Environment finds that the urban heat island effect accounts for 56% of the total temperature increase in South Korean city stations over the past 55 years. Warmists constantly downplay the urban heat island (UHI) effect as insignificant, but as this paper and several others show, the UHI does cause very significant biases with stations reporting higher or rising temperatures because they are poorly sited.
Quantitative Estimates of Warming by Urbanization in South Korea over the Past 55 Years (1954-2008)
Maeng-Ki Kim and Seonae Kim
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2011/08/new-paper-urban-heat-island-effect.html
Unadjusted data of long period stations in GISS show a virtually flat century scale trend
Posted on October 24, 2011 by Anthony Watts
Temperature averages of continuously reporting stations from the GISS dataset
Guest post by Michael Palmer, University of Waterloo, Canada
Abstract
The GISS dataset includes more than 600 stations within the U.S. that have been in operation continuously throughout the 20th century. This brief report looks at the average temperatures reported by those stations. The unadjusted data of both rural and non-rural stations show a virtually flat trend across the century.
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Figure 3: Temperature trends and station counts for all US stations in GISS reporting continuously, that is containing at least one monthly data point for each year from 1900 to 2000. The slope for the rural stations (335 total) is -0.00073 deg/year, and for the other stations (278 total) -0.00069 deg/year. The monthly data point coverage is above 90% throughout except for the very first few years.
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http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/24/unadjusted-data-of-long-period-stations-in-giss-show-a-virtually-flat-century-scale-trend/
What the BEST data actually says
Posted on October 24, 2011 by Willis Eschenbach
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Disagreement with satellite observations
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Remember what we would expect to find if all of the ground records were correct. They’d all lie on or near the same line, and the satellite temperatures would be rising faster than the ground temperatures. Here are the actual results, showing BEST, satellite, GISS, CRUTEM, and GHCN land temperatures:
Figure 3. BEST, average satellite, and other estimates of the global land temperature over the satellite era. Anomaly period 1979-1984 = 0.
In Figure 3, we find the opposite of what we expected. The land temperatures are rising faster than the atmospheric temperatures, contrary to theory. In addition, the BEST data is the worst of the lot in this regard.
Disagreement with other ground-based records.
The disagreement between the four ground-based results also begs for an explanation. Note that the records diverge at the rate of about 0.2°C in thirty years, which is 0.7° per century. Since this is the approximate amount of the last century’s warming, this is by no means a trivial difference.
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http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/24/what-the-best-data-actually-says/#more-49905
Rewriting The Past At The Ministry Of Truth
In 1975, NCAR generated this graph of global cooling. Temperatures plummeted from 1945 to at least 1970.
Note that 1970 used to be colder than 1900.
In 2011, Richard Muller published this graph, showing that it never happened.
Below is an overlay at the same scale. The cooling after 1950 has disappeared. Winston Smith would be proud!
[See plots]
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http://www.real-science.com/rewriting-ministry-truth
A ‘Q&A’ With A Renowned Climate Expert Regarding The BEST Research
Below, we posed some very basic questions to Dr. Ball. Our questions are in bold and Dr. Ball’s responses italicized:
1. What actually did BEST analyze and measure? Global temperatures or a subset of global temperatures?
2. Did BEST use different climate station data than that used by NASA/GISS, NOAA/NCDC and HadCRUT?
3. Did BEST use only the best climate stations’ data or did they use all stations’ data?
4. Did BEST use the actual raw temperature data, or an “improved” raw dataset, or adjusted temperatures for their analysis?
5. If adjusted, did BEST perform the adjustments or another agency (3rd party)?
6. How were the adjustments done?
7. Has BEST made public their calculated monthly anomalies and monthly baseline means used to calculate the anomalies for their new temperature series?
8. From your preliminary review of the BEST research, what do you like best of their methodology? What are the shortcomings of their methodology?
http://www.c3headlines.com/2011/10/a-qa-with-a-renowned-climate-expert-regarding-the-best-research.html
Singer’s letter to WaPo on BEST
The scientific finding that does not settle the climate-change debate
S. Fred Singer Letter to WashPost Oct 25, 2011
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/25/singers-letter-to-wapo-on-best/
Responding to:-
The scientific finding that settles the climate-change debate
By Eugene Robinson, Published: October 25
For the clueless or cynical diehards who deny global warming, it’s getting awfully cold out there.
The latest icy blast of reality comes from an eminent scientist whom the climate-change skeptics once lauded as one of their own. Richard Muller, a respected physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, used to dismiss alarmist climate research as being “polluted by political and activist frenzy.” Frustrated at what he considered shoddy science, Muller launched his own comprehensive study to set the record straight. Instead, the record set him straight.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-scientific-finding-that-settles-the-climate-change-debate/2011/03/01/gIQAd6QfDM_story.html?wpisrc=emailtoafriend
Thanks for the link RC. A very pithy reply with some excellent points.
I particularly enjoyed the punch-line:
BEST project rescues us from thousands of lying global thermometers
Lucky the BEST project is here to save us from the lying thermometers of the past. Apparently people in the 1960′s and 1970′s were clever enough to get man on the moon, but too stupid to measure the temperature. Millions of people were fooled into thinking the world was cooling for three decades by erroneous thermometer readings. Who would have guessed?
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http://joannenova.com.au/2011/10/thank-god-best-project-rescues-us-from-thousands-of-lying-global-thermometers/
I note this 1975 Newsweek quote:-
If that’s below ground not above ground then half a degree becomes all the more significant. It goes on:-
“Sunshine reaching the ground” – global warming in a nutshell.
Australis brought some well needed perspective to comments under Gareth’s “You’re (not) the BEST thing” HT post I see.
Gareth has since moved on to extreme weather, prompting angst from Thomas needless to say.
Explaining Muller vs. Muller: is BEST blissfully unaware of cosmic-ray-cloud theory?
Posted on October 28, 2011 by Alec Rawls
Here is the puzzle, as noted by Nigel Calder and others: how can BEST insist that a modicum of additional evidence of late 20th century warming should put skepticism of the CO2-warming theory to rest, while at the same time admitting that they never even tried to examine the possible causes of warming?
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http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/28/explaining-muller-vs-muller-is-best-blissfully-unaware-of-cosmic-ray-cloud-theory/
Patrick Michaels on BEST: The Earth Is Round!!!
Rule #1 in science is that you don’t blatt your results until they are either presented at a peer-screened conference or published in the peer-reviewed literature. The price of this is often out-of-hand rejection of otherwise decent work.
But once again, climate researchers have blundered into science by press release instead of science by the rules. Why?
For whatever reason, the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) research team diverted a decent amount of the $600,000 they were granted to analyze surface temperature histories into a coordinated and extensive press release of its findings on October 21. At the same time they submitted four manuscripts to American Geophysical Union journals for peer-review.
The earth-shattering news is that the average land surface temperature of the planet is higher than it was 200 years ago. I know of no credentialed climate scientist who does not know this.
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Given the fact that they have gone public with their science, I’ll go public with my review.
I have a license to do so. The first citation in the literature review portion of the manuscript on systematic urban heating bias is a 2007 paper in Journal of Geophysics by University of Guelph’s Ross McKitirick, and yours truly.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmichaels/2011/10/28/keep-this-bit-of-news-on-the-qt-the-earth-is-round/
Ouch:-
Scientist who said climate change sceptics had been proved wrong accused of hiding truth by colleague
By David Rose – Daily Mail, UK (MailOnline)
It was hailed as the scientific study that ended the global warming debate once and for all – the research that, in the words of its director, ‘proved you should not be a sceptic, at least not any longer’.
Professor Richard Muller, of Berkeley University in California, and his colleagues from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperatures project team (BEST) claimed to have shown that the planet has warmed by almost a degree centigrade since 1950 and is warming continually.
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But today The Mail on Sunday can reveal that a leading member of Prof Muller’s team has accused him of trying to mislead the public by hiding the fact that BEST’s research shows global warming has stopped.
Prof Judith Curry, who chairs the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at America’s prestigious Georgia Institute of Technology, said that Prof Muller’s claim that he has proven global warming sceptics wrong was also a ‘huge mistake’, with no scientific basis.
Prof Curry is a distinguished climate researcher with more than 30 years experience and the second named co-author of the BEST project’s four research papers.
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In fact, Prof Curry said, the project’s research data show there has been no increase in world temperatures since the end of the Nineties – a fact confirmed by a new analysis that The Mail on Sunday has obtained.
‘There is no scientific basis for saying that warming hasn’t stopped,’ she said. ‘To say that there is detracts from the credibility of the data, which is very unfortunate.’
However, Prof Muller denied warming was at a standstill.
‘We see no evidence of it [global warming] having slowed down,’ he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. There was, he added, ‘no levelling off’.
A graph issued by the BEST project also suggests a continuing steep increase.
[See plots: "THE GRAPH THAT FOOLED THE WORLD" and "THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH"]
But a report to be published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation includes a graph of world average temperatures over the past ten years, drawn from the BEST project’s data and revealed on its website.
This graph shows that the trend of the last decade is absolutely flat, with no increase at all – though the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have carried on rising relentlessly.
‘This is nowhere near what the climate models were predicting,’ Prof Curry said. ‘Whatever it is that’s going on here, it doesn’t look like it’s being dominated by CO2.’
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[Prof Curry] added, in the wake of the unexpected global warming standstill, many climate scientists who had previously rejected sceptics’ arguments were now taking them much more seriously.
They were finally addressing questions such as the influence of clouds, natural temperature cycles and solar radiation – as they should have done, she said, a long time ago.
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In Prof Curry’s view, two of the papers were not ready to be published, in part because they did not properly address the arguments of climate sceptics.
As for the graph disseminated to the media, she said: ‘This is “hide the decline” stuff. Our data show the pause, just as the other sets of data do. Muller is hiding the decline.
‘To say this is the end of scepticism is misleading, as is the statement that warming hasn’t paused. It is also misleading to say, as he has, that the issue of heat islands has been settled.’
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2055191/Scientists-said-climate-change-sceptics-proved-wrong-accused-hiding-truth-colleague.html#ixzz1cF6MpJCh
The GWPF source for the MailOnline article reference:-
Best Confirms Global Temperature Standstill
Dr. David Whitehouse – GWPF
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When asked by the BBC’s Today programme Professor Richard Muller, leader of the initiative, said that the global temperature standstill of the past decade was not present in their data.
“In our data, which is only on the land we see no evidence of it having slowed down. Now the evidence which shows that it has been stopped is a combination of land and ocean data. The oceans do not heat as much as the land because it absorbs more of the heat and when the data are combined with the land data then the other groups have shown that when it does seem to be leveling off. We have not seen that in the land data.”
My first thought would be that it would be remarkable if it was……….
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Fig 1 shows the past ten years plotted from the monthly data from Best’s archives. Click on the image to enlarge.
It is a statistically perfect straight line of zero gradient. Indeed, most of the largest variations in it can be attributed to ENSO and la Nina effects. It is impossible to reconcile this with Professor Muller’s statement. Could it really be the case that Professor Muller has not looked at the data in an appropriate way to see the last ten years clearly?
Indeed Best seems to have worked hard to obscure it. They present data covering more almost 200 years is presented with a short x-axis and a stretched y-axis to accentuate the increase. The data is then smoothed using a ten year average which is ideally suited to removing the past five years of the past decade and mix the earlier standstill years with years when there was an increase. This is an ideal formula for suppressing the past decade’s data.
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Only a few years ago many scientists and commentators would not acknowledge the global temperature standstill of the past decade. Now that it has become unarguable there has emerged more explanations for it than can possibly be the case.
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http://www.thegwpf.org/the-observatory/4230-best-confirms-global-temperature-standstill.html
Uh oh: It was the BEST of times, it was the worst of times
Posted on October 29, 2011 by Anthony Watts
Alternate title: Something wonky this way comes
I try to get away to work on my paper and the climate world explodes, pulling me back in. Strange things are happening related to the BEST data and co-authors Richard Muller and Judith Curry. Implosion might be a good word.
Popcorn futures are soaring. BEST Co-author Judith Curry drops a bombshell:
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http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/29/uh-oh-it-was-the-best-of-times-it-was-the-worst-of-times/#more-50286
Check out Los Angeles: BEST vs GISS
In an exclusive interview with “The Mail on Sunday”, Dr Judith Curry….
Somehow, I don’t think this is going to end well…
Like watching a train wreck by installments.
I’ve been looking through Curry’s posts at Climate Etc. She seems to be in rapid catch-up mode with all the sceptic angles that Jo Nova or Alan Cheetham (Global Warming Science) for example have already raked over extensively e.g. She’s posted:-
“Tropospheric and surface temperatures” by Donald Rapp (impressive Biosketch)
http://judithcurry.com/2011/10/29/tropospheric-and-surface-temperatures/
He says in respect to Christy et al. (2010)l.dealing with that topic:-
These issues are hardly news in the sceptic domain. I pointed much of this out to MftE CC in my Climate Metrics case but Santer trumps Christy apparently. “The issues have been resolved” is approximately what I received back (although negotiations are continuing).
Stuff are a bit behind the curve on this one
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/5880287/Sceptic-finds-he-now-agrees-global-warming-is-real
Delingpole isn’t
Lying, cheating climate scientists caught lying, cheating again
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100114292/lying-cheating-climate-scientists-caught-lying-cheating-again/
Stuff’s stuff up was to reprint a climate article from AP – bad bad Stuff.
Deltoid jokes are turning sour
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2011/10/the_berkeley_earth_surface_tem.php?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=channellink
Can’t wait to see what they make of Dellingpole’s “Lying, cheating climate scientists”
#170 is a classic:-
“I didn’t take that Daily Mail article seriously” – of course not.
“look at that hideous GWPF graph” – a warmists worst nightmare.
“where is the 2008 La Niña?” – that’s BEST data, ask Muller.
Daily Mail article is a “distasteful hit piece on Richard Muller by David Rose” according to one MichaelEMann on Twitter.
Watts is wound up – “The BEST whopper ever”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/30/the-best-whopper-ever/
Afterthought – appropriate that ethically challenged Mann would attempt to steal the moral high-ground.
H/T to Tom Nelson for the Mann Twitter http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-snow-day-update.html#links
NZ Herald has followed Stuff’s lead and printed Seth Borenstein’s AP article “Sceptic forced to admit globe really is warming” http://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/article.cfm?c_id=82&objectid=10762969
Duh – I’ve seen smarter sheep than these editors.
BEST statistics show hot air doesn’t rise off concrete!
The BEST media hit continues to pump-PR around the world. The Australian repeats the old-fake-news “Climate sceptic Muller won over by warming”. This o-so-manufactured media blitz shows how desperate and shameless the pro-scare team is in their sliding descent. There are no scientists switching from skeptical to alarmist, though thousands are switching the other way.
The sad fact that so many news publications fell for the fakery, without doing a ten minute google, says something about the quality of our news. How is it headline material when someone who was never a skeptic pretends to be “converted” by a result that told us something we all knew anyway (o-look the world is warming)?
The [six] points every skeptic needs to know about the BEST saga [abbreviated]:
1. Muller was never a skeptic
2. BEST broke basic text-book rules of statistics
3. The BEST results are very “adjusted” and not the same as the original thermometer readings
4. Obviously hot air doesn’t rise off concrete
5. The BEST data show the world hasn’t warmed for 13 years.
6. The BEST group have their own vested conflicts
A Lesson for Skeptics
A field of strawmen
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http://joannenova.com.au/2011/11/best-statistics-show-hot-air-doesnt-rise-off-concrete/
And as Jo reports, “Judith Curry by the way has just threatened to quit”.
Global temperatures: All over the map
WSJ.com 11/5/11
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The Berkeley Earth team uses a statistical tool it calls a scalpel to cut out data when there is a gap. It uses a process called Kriging to fill in gaps in data, borrowed from geoscientists and surveyors, who used it, for example, to estimate the elevation at point B that is between A and C, points where altitude is known. And it weights data more heavily from stations that are reliable than that from those that produce erratic numbers.
The result is a statistical model of what the temperature was at any given moment at any given location. Actual thermometer readings, when they are available, are used only as fodder for the statistical model.
The Berkeley scientists “have a very complicated model,” says William Briggs, a member of the probability and statistics committee of the American Meteorology Society. “They reported on the setting of one of those dials” in the model. “That is not the actual temperature.”
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http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2011/11/global-temperatures-all-over-map.html
Nice synopsis of the BEST project in this article.
Australian temperatures
guest post by Philip Bradley
This work needs to be brought to a wider audience because it paints a very different climate picture to the global land datasets based on minimum and maximum temperatures – GISS, HadCRUT and the recent BEST analysis.
I’ll present his discoveries in three parts, as there appear to be three significant elements in his work.
1. Using a minimum and maximum temperature dataset exaggerates the increase in the global average land surface temperature over the last 60 years by approximately 45%
2. Almost all the warming over the last 60 years occurred between 6am and 12 noon
3. Warming is strongly correlated with decreasing cloud cover during the daytime and is therefore caused by increased solar insolation
I’ll then add a part 4 covering some additional analysis of mine
4. Reduced anthropogenic aerosols (and clouds seeded by anthropogenic aerosols) are the cause of most the observed warming over the last 60 years
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GISS, HadCRUT and BEST wrongly assume the mean of Tmin+Tmax represents average daily (24 hour) temperatures.
Note at this point, that any day time warming that does not persist through the following night time is irrelevant to climate warming, as it is not heat that is retained in the climate system for more than 24 hours. So even a correctly derived average temperature is a poor indicator of the amount of warming.
In summary, calculating average temperature from the 3 hourly data instead of the Tmin+Tmax/2 method results in ~45% less warming since 1950.
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http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2011/11/4/australian-temperatures.html
H/T Jonathan Lowe, Philip Bradley, Bishop Hill and Andy.
Satellite Systems
UAH lower troposphere temperature colder than 2008
Posted on October 30, 2011 by Anthony Watts
Brrr…the Troposphere Is Ignoring Your SUV
by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
For those tracking the daily global temperature updates at the Discover website, you might have noticed the continuing drop this month in global temperatures. The mid-tropospheric AMSU channels are showing even cooler temperatures than we had at this date with the last (2008) La Nina. The following screen shot is for AMSU channel 6
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http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/30/uah-lower-troposphere-temperature-colder-than-2008/
Warwick Hughes http://www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?cat=1
has a post called Interesting nuances in IPCC groups treatment of New Zealand temperature data
It links to a blog article of his from 2007 pointing out the degree of warming over different timespans for two selections of grid cells covering New Zealand – for CRUT2 – CRUT3 (UKMO) and NIWA which contains two graphics here comparing the “old” CRUTem2 data of Jones, with the new Hadley Centre CRUT3 and he says ‘Looking at 140 years of New Zealand land based data we now see huge extra warming in the Hadley Centre CRUT3 gridded data.’
Warwick Hughes is a New Zealand-born graduate in geology from Auckland University who has worked in Australia for many years and has carried out pioneering research on surface temperature measurement. (bio from Dr Vincent Gray at http://www.warwickhughes.com/gray04/nzct48.htm)
If you use the ‘search’ for NIWA you find a couple of very interesting articles which are of course relevant to NZ
http://www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=53#more-53
He said that New Zealand temperature trends as measured by the Jones et al group at the University of Norwich for the IPCC (United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) show warming of 0.63 degrees C over the 27 years 1979 to 2005 which is 0.38 degrees more than the seven station NIWA anomaly trend which warms at 0.25 degrees C.
“When we have the IPCC believing that New Zealand is warming at more than double the rate that NIWA publishes, then this is a sign that the science is far from settled,” said Mr Hughes.
Richard; I just sent an e mail to Warwick Hughes; I recall I mentioned him in replies to BOM as well as this thread but if I do a search at your search request it dosen’t come up with comments in which he’s mentioned; can that be fixed is that too much hassle
Val, I just tested it and it works for me. Search for “warwick” (no quotes) and this is the first link in the list that appears:
http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/open-threads/climate/climate-science/temperature-records/
It’s this very page. Try again?
thanks Richard; much appreciated; my error was I used quotes and the whole name; anyway I’ve sent that on to Warwick as I like to keep informed those people about whom I say something
BOM Tips from Ken Stewart
http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2010/10/world-of-sceptical-questions-unfolds%E2%80%A6/#comment-25708
Australia’s High Quality Data: 12-year-sites used for “long term” trends
Analysing Australian Temperature Trends
By Andrew Barnham
val majkus says:
November 1, 2010 at 10:47 am
Here’s the inimitable Dr Tim Ball on data manipulation
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/28360
Data collection is expensive and requires continuity – it’s a major role for government. They fail with weather data because money goes to political climate research. A positive outcome of corrupted climate science exposed by Climategate, is re-examination beginning with raw data by the UK Met Office (UKMO). This is impossible because much is lost, thrown out after modification or conveniently lost, as in the case of records held by Phil Jones, director of Climategate. (Here and Here)
Evidence of manipulation and misrepresentation of data is everywhere. Countries maintain weather stations and adjust the data before it’s submitted through the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to the central agencies including the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN), the Hadley Center associated with CRU now called CRUTEM3, and NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).
They make further adjustments before selecting stations to produce their global annual average temperature. This is why they produce different measures each year from supposedly similar data.
There are serious concerns about data quality. The US spends more than others on weather stations, yet their condition and reliability is simply atrocious. Anthony Watts has documented the condition of US weather stations; it is one of governments failures.” (end of quote)
and Ken Stewart has shown how this has happened in Australia http://kenskingdom.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/the-australian-temperature-record-part-8-the-big-picture/
his conclusion?
In a commendable effort to improve the state of the data, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has created the Australian High-Quality Climate Site Network. However, the effect of doing so has been to introduce into the temperature record a warming bias of over 40%. And their climate analyses on which this is based appear to increase this even further to around 66%.
Has anyone done similar checking in New Zealand?
Has anyone done similar checking in New Zealand?
Definitely – the NZCSC.
NZCSCET v NIWA is the culmination of that.
I saw Anthony Watts comment here a while ago asking Richard T for some info on an Auckland site, so there is overseas interest.
BTW – did you see my “Open Threads as promised” tip in “Controversy and scandal” ?
Richard; Are the results of NZCSCET data check publicly available, if so could you point me to the site; I’ll just check their site to make sure it’s not there; I know Ken Stewart will be interested
Just hit the Tag “NZ temperature records” or select the Category “Air temperature” in the right hand column (or both).
Thanks Richard; I sent Ken a link to the Quadrant Online article which is very informative
Richard, when is the result of the BOM auditing of NIWA’s records due?
I wish I knew. We expect an announcment shortly, but who knows?
Hi Val,
The NZ Climate Science Education Trust has been set up to make legal representation easier in our case against NIWA. The case is an Application for Judicial Review — basically asking a judge to look at something we disagree with. As you know, the Coalition (NZCSET) has lodged a Statement of Claim and in response, NIWA’s lawyers have lodged a Statement of Defence. The next move is a conference to decide whether the parties agree. If not, there could a day in court.
There’s a lot of interest, both here and around the world, but there’s no news yet, sorry!
Thanks Richard; as Warwick Hughes said about the BOM auditing ‘it’s a bit like asking Dracula to audit the Blood Bank’
Dr Fred Singer has an opinion piece in The American Thinker today http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/11/the_french_academy_lays_an_egg.html
quoting one para
Even more important, weather satellite data, which furnish the best global temperature data for the atmosphere, show essentially no warming between 1979 and 1997. Now, according to well-established theories of the atmosphere as expounded by textbooks, the surface warming must be smaller than the atmospheric trend by roughly a factor of two. But one half of zero is still zero. It suggests that the surface warming reported by the IPCC, based on weather-station data that had been processed by the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia University (CRU-EAU) may not exist. How could this have come about? We will get the answer once we learn how the CRU selected particular weather stations (from some thousands worldwide) to use for their global product and how they then corrected the actual data (to remove urban influences and other effects). So far, none of the several investigations of “Climategate” has delved into these all-important details. Nor have they established the exact nature of the “trick” used by the CRU and fellow conspirators to “hide the decline” (of temperature) — referred to in the leaked Climategate e-mails.
The “trick to hide the decline” refers to the splicing of the tree ring proxies to the temperature records. The decline refers specifically to the decrease in the apparent recent temperature shown in the proxies, and is commonly referred to as the “divergence problem”
It does not refer to a decline in measured land temperatures in this context.
here’s another article by Dr S Fred Singer
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/11/the_green_bubble_is_about_to_b.html
There is a revolution coming that is likely to burst the green global warming bubble: the temperature trend used by the IPCC (the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) to support their conclusion about anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is likely to turn out to be fake. The situation will become clear once Virginia’s attorney general, Kenneth Cuccinelli, obtains information now buried in e-mails at the University of Virginia. Or Hearings on Climategate by the U.S. Congress may uncover the “smoking gun” that demonstrates that the warming trend used by the IPCC does not really exist.
and more on the Case
http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2010/11/global-warming-foia-suit-against-nasa-heats-up-again.html#more
Global Warming FOIA Suit Against NASA Heats Up Again
In court documents filed last night, the Competitive Enterprise Institute argues that NASA has gone out of its way to avoid turning over records that show the agency reverse-engineered temperature data to better make the case that the planet is becoming warmer
I’ve just posted this at Jo Nova’s blog but worth repeating here
Looking at BOM and temperatures I was directed from WUWT to this comment by Warwick Hughes
http://www.warwickhughes.com/climate/gissbom.htm
At http://www.warwickhughes.com/climate/bom.htm Warwick says ‘Internationally the BoM does not have things all its own way, NASA / GISS publish on their web site (see www links) UHI adjusted trends for Australian cities and also have for download SE Australian rural records that show no warming since late 19 C, which the BoM say are incorrect’
the comment at http://www.warwickhughes.com/climate/gissbom.htm
is posted 27/9/2000 and Warwick says ‘This page presents three Australian State Capital temperature records compared to nearby rural or more rural neighbours.
This is a significant area for study because south eastern Australia has probably the best set of long term rural temperature records in the southern hemisphere.
GISS / NASA adjustments for urban warming are presented in the case of the State Capitals, contrasting with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) adjustments.’
The differerence is stark with BoM finding much warming over SE Australia since late 19 C while NASA finds little trend.
At http://www.warwickhughes.com/climate/ 26, June, 2005, Warwick has a site which in his words exposes the errors and distortions in temperature records used by the IPCC as evidence of “global warming”, Warwick says the central contention of these pages is that for over a decade the IPCC has published global temperature trends distorted by purely local warmth from Urban Heat Islands (UHI’s). There is simply no systematic compensation for urban warming in the Jones dataset. Occasionally there is a slight adjustment in a record for a site change or other anomaly but the majority of records are used “raw”.
Warwick gives some history of this amazing work at http://www.warwickhughes.com/
For those who do not know this is his blog and you can learn about him as the ‘about’ button http://www.warwickhughes.com/blog/
He was also the recipient of the famous Jones letter which you can read about on WUWT http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/23/taking-a-bite-out-of-climate-data/ ‘The Dog ate Global Warming’ That article informs us that ‘Warwick Hughes, an Australian scientist, wondered where that “+/–” came from, so he politely wrote Phil Jones in early 2005, asking for the original data. Jones’s response to a fellow scientist attempting to replicate his work was, “We have 25 years or so invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it?”
WUWT has an interesting post up today A J Strata
http://wattsupwiththat.com/
Bottom Line – Using two back-of-the-envelope tests for significance against the CRU global temperature data I have discovered:
■75% of the globe has not seen significant peak warming or cooling changes between the period prior to 1960 and the 2000′s which rise above a 0.5°C threshold, which is well within the CRU’s own stated measurement uncertainties o +/- 1°C or worse.
■Assuming a peak to peak change (pre 1960 vs 2000′s) should represent a change greater than 20% of the measured temperature range (i.e., if the measured temp range is 10° then a peak-to-peak change of greater than 2° would be considered ‘significant’) 87% the Earth has not experienced significant temperature changes between pre 1960 period and the 2000′s.
GISS Temperatures Out Of Line With The Rest Of The World
Posted on December 11, 2010 by stevengoddard
GISS shows temperatures rising sharply since July. We have been having a record cold La Niña since then, and everyone else shows temperatures plummeting.
GISS also showed a huge spike in March which nobody else saw. Does this have anything to do with Hansen’s constant claims of 2010 as the hottest year ever? He shows peak La Niña temperatures almost as warm as peak El Niño temperatures. That is simply ridiculous.
See Plots……
Yes, Richard I saw that this morning and left a comment on Warwick Hughes’ blog; I’m hoping he will make a comment;
Dr Ball has an article here http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/20528
he says How agencies like the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) or the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) adjust for the UHIE is the crux of the problem.
the article contains excerpts from Warwick Hughes’ research which finished in 1991 and was continued by Long
Dr Ball ends by saying ‘Now you see why the CRU and IPCC limited the number of stations they were using and restricted them to mostly urban stations to get the result they wanted. You also understand why Tom Wigley told Jones in a leaked email of November 6, 2009 that, “We probably need to say more about this (Difference between land and ocean temperatures). Land warming since 1980 has been twice the ocean warming and skeptics might claim that this proves that urban warming is real and important.” Exactly Tom! ‘
I had an idea that Warwick had a 1995 peer reviewed paper on the topic but I can’t find it
there is this excellent paper by the late John Daly relating to the radio sonde record
http://www.john-daly.com/sonde.htm
That radio sonde comparison shows the blatant miss-information (science?) promulgated (Santer in this case).
No wonder the warmists cheered when John Daly passed away.
NIWA Releases Review Of NZ Temperature Trends
Thursday, 16 December, 2010 – 18:14 – Voxy
NIWA today released a report reviewing its seven station temperature series, which adds to its analysis of New Zealand’s temperature trends over the past 100 years.
The report was independently peer reviewed by Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology to ensure the ideas, methods, and conclusions stood up in terms of scientific accuracy, logic, and consistency.
NIWA CEO John Morgan confirmed that the scientists from the Bureau’s National Climate Centre concluded that the results and underlying methodology used by NIWA were sound.
“We asked the Australian Bureau of Meteorology to conduct the peer review to ensure a thorough examination by an independent, internationally respected, climate science organisation”, said NIWA CEO John Morgan.
Mr Morgan confirmed that the scientists from the Bureau’s National Climate Centre concluded that the results and underlying methodology used by NIWA were sound.
NIWA’s seven station temperature series comprises temperature records from Auckland, Wellington, Masterton, Nelson, Hokitika, Lincoln, and Dunedin. The seven locations were chosen because they have robust and well documented temperature records that go back 100 years or more, and they represent a good geographical spread across New Zealand.
Temperature data from the seven locations were first examined 30 years ago by leading New Zealand climatologist, Dr Jim Salinger. After making some adjustments for changes in measurement sites, Dr Salinger concluded that the average New Zealand temperature had warmed significantly during the 20th Century.
The series from the seven stations were reviewed in 1992, and then updated annually. They indicated a warming of about 0.9C over the 100 years up to 2009.
In 2010, NIWA re-analysed the Hokitika station temperature series and published the results to demonstrate the methodology applied in creating a temperature series. Because of the public interest in climate data, the NIWA Board and the Minister of Research, Science & Technology, Dr Wayne Mapp, asked that a full review of each of the seven sites be undertaken by NIWA. That review has been completed, independently peer reviewed, and the report released today represents the results of that work.
“I am not surprised that this internationally peer reviewed 2010 report of the seven station temperature series has confirmed that NIWA’s science was sound. It adds to the scientific knowledge that shows that New Zealand’s temperature has risen by about 0.9 degrees over the past 100 years” Mr Morgan said.
7 station series review
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NIWA today released a report reviewing its seven station temperature series, which adds to its analysis of New Zealand’s temperature trends over the past 100 years.
December 16, 2010
You can also download the full report. (169 page PDF, 7.6 MB)
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Questions and Answers
What does the re-analysis show?
The key result of the re-analysis is that the New Zealand-wide warming trend from the seven-station series is almost the same in the 2010 revised series as in the previous series. That is, the previous NIWA result is robust. In terms of the detail for individual sites, the 100-year trend has increased at some sites, and decreased at others, but it is still within the margin of error, and confirms the temperature rise of about 0.9 degrees over the last 100 years.
What is the seven station temperature series?
The seven station series is an analysis of temperature trends from climate station data at seven locations which are geographically representative of the country, and for which there is a long time series of climate records (over 100 years): Auckland, Wellington, Masterton, Nelson, Hokitika, Lincoln (near Christchurch), and Dunedin.
The concept of the seven-station temperature series was originally developed by Dr Jim Salinger in 1981. He recognised that, although the absolute temperatures varied markedly from point to point across the New Zealand landscape, the variations from year to year were much more uniform, and only a few locations were actually required to form a robust estimate of the national temperature trend.
The seven-station series was revised and updated in 1992, and again in 2010.
How is the seven station series constructed?
At each of the seven locations there have been changes in specific climate station location over time. When you create a long time series by adding information from each of these station locations together, you have to make adjustments to account for these changes.
There have been various changes in location etc over time at each of the seven locations making up the seven station series. In order to create a long time series at each location, it is necessary to merge temperature records from a number of specific sites have been merged together to form a long time series. When merging different temperature records like this, it is necessary to adjust for climatic differences from place to place or significant biases would be introduced. Adjustments may also be needed even if the site does not physically move, because changes in exposure or instrumentation at a given site can also bias the temperature measurements.
Why do you need to adjust the raw data?
Long time series of climate data often have artificial discontinuities – caused, for example, by station relocations, changes in instrumentation, or changes in observing practice – which can distort, or even hide, the true climatic signal. Therefore, all climatic studies and data sets should be based on homogeneity-adjusted data.
That is what NIWA climatologists have done in the seven station series, and the seven individual station review documents outline the adjustments.
The raw (original) climate station data have not been changed and are freely available on the NIWA climate database, which means that the NIWA seven station series can be easily reproduced.
How does the NZ temperature rise compare with the global temperature rise?
The 2010 NIWA review of long-term trends in New Zealand’s annual mean temperature showed a rise of about 0.9 degrees Celsius over the last 100 years (0.91 +/- 0.3 degrees C per Century). The IPCC estimate of the 100 year global temperature trend from 1906 to 2005 is 0.74 degrees Celsius, The difference between the IPCC global trend and NIWA’s New Zealand number is less than the margin of error of the trend estimates. The IPCC estimate is a global average – different parts of the world will show different rates of warming. New Zealand is strongly influenced by its oceanic environment.
What is the peer review process?
In this scientific context, peer review constitutes a thorough evaluation of the NIWA documents by individuals with appropriate qualifications in the same field of science (climatology/meteorology). The documents were written by highly qualified NIWA scientists, internally reviewed by other similarly qualified NIWA scientists, and the revised documents were then externally reviewed by Australian Bureau of Meteorology scientists. The external review examined the ideas, methods, and conclusions for scientific accuracy, clarity, and logic.
The NIWA authors then addressed the comments made by the reviewers at the Bureau of Meteorology, and the subsequently revised documents have now been published on the NIWA website.
But how does it compare with the Southern Hemisphere (SH) trend?
And you’ve even found more warming than the global trend, NIWA.
From page 13 of the pdf report
The review does not constitute a reanalysis of the New Zealand ‘seven station’ temperature
record. Such a reanalysis would be required to independently determine the sensitivity of, for
example, New Zealand temperature trends to the choice of the underlying network, or the
analysis methodology. Such a task would require full access to the raw and modified
temperature data and metadata, and would be a major scientific undertaking
Well spotted, Andy. They’re saying that what they accused the NZCSC of “already knowing”, back in November 2009, is actually “a major scientific undertaking”.
Page 8
Page 7
These straight line trends are meaningless – its a sine curve.
SST trend +0.71C
7SS trend +0.91C
But atmosphere warming significantly faster than ocean ???
Both of those show cooling over the last decade – Ha!
Page 13
Page 25
They found even MORE warming at Auckland – its worse than we thought.
(and Masterton, and Wellington)
Basically NIWA gave BOM its methodology and BOM confirmed that NIWA used it – seems reasonable given its NOT A REANALYSIS.
Court Orders University to Surrender Global Warming Records
http://www.suite101.com/content/court-orders-university-to-surrender-global-warming-records-a328888
The University of Virginia (U.Va.) had stalled since last year in handing over its record relating to accusations against a former academic employee implicated in Climategate affair of November 2009.
The researcher at the center of the underliying controversy is global warming doomsayer, Professor Michael Mann who now works at Penn. State University. Mann, a Lead Author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been under increased scrutiny since the climate fraud scandal hit the headlines over a year ago.
The latest story appears on the SPPI website which reports, “Court records reveal that counsel for the University has indicated instead that the Mann-related records do in fact exist, on a backup server. To avoid University delay or claims for huge search fees, today’s request specifically directs the school to search that server.”
Wonder if they will find anything?
Lubos Motl: Is there a 66-year cycle in temperatures?
Thursday, March 3rd 2011, 2:24 PM EST – Co2sceptic
Many people have noticed that the global mean temperature was increasing in the first third of the 20th century (33 years), slightly decreasing in the second third of the 20th century (33 years), and increasing in the last third of the 20th century (33 years or so).
If this evolution may be extrapolated in the obvious way, there is a 66-year cycle in the temperatures. The 20th century warming is biased because the century included two warming half-periods but only one cooling half-period: that’s why the warming trend in the 20th century could be much higher than the long-term one.
Some of the warmest years – at least in the U.S. – appeared approximately 66 years before the warm years such as 1998.
Continues………
Examining the past 15 years of monthly global temperature anomalies, the per century change from a warming trend to a cooling trend becomes clear.
Since 2001 the per century trends have conclusively switched from a global warming direction to a global cooling direction. In addition, the early 2011 temperature anomalies confirm what has actually been taking place since 2001. If the May 2011 10-year trend continues, the global temperature by 2100 will have decreased by -0.67°C.
This warming to cooling reversal has happened in the face of “business as usual” increases in atmospheric CO2 levels.
http://www.c3headlines.com/2011/07/latest-global-temperature-data-confirms-that-unequivocal-global-cooling-is-accelerating.html
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Phil Jones recently proclaimed that global warming finally has become “statistically significant” since 1995.
Jones was speaking of the 15 years starting in 1996 and ending in 2010. Although the warming has become “statistically significant” in his opinion (not others), the actual level of warming is literally immaterial when put into the context of catastrophic warming (from 5 to 10 degrees Celsius by 2100) pushed by government payroll scientists enthralled (enriched?) with alarmism.
To better understand the level of immaterial warming that has happened, look at the chart above (adjacent). The red curve is a plot of monthly HadCRUT anomalies for the 15 years (180 months) ending May 2011. The light blue curve is a 2nd order curve fit of the anomalies. The black dots represent monthly atmospheric CO2 levels and gray curve the 2nd order fitting to those CO2 levels. (charts and stats done in Excel)
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Below are charts for other major temperature datasets for the last 15 years ending May 2011. Regardless of the dataset, global temperatures are in a slight cooling phase presently and they could continue to go down, and then again, they may not. That’s what natural climate change is about.
http://www.c3headlines.com/2011/06/phil-jones-global-warming-over-last-15-years-is-insignificant-immaterial-irrelevant-and-inco.html
Hansen And His Purple Crayon
by Steven Goddard
Hansen found the region north of 80N pretty darn hot during September, even though he doesn’t have any thermometers there. DMI does have thermometers there, and they found that September was normal or below normal. Whatever Hansen is doing bears no resemblance to science.
[See plot]
With 250km smoothing, it is clear that the hot area north of 80N is all “missing data.”
[See plot]
DMI shows normal to below, using the same baseline period.
[See plot]
By making up hot temperatures in the Arctic, Hansen is able to drag the global temperature anomaly up significantly.
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http://www.real-science.com/hansen-purple-crayon
New GISS Data Set Heating Up The Arctic
Posted on January 15, 2012 by Steven Goddard
GISS has invented some new corrections to heat the Arctic. Until a few weeks ago, Reykjavik, Iceland looked like the graph below, with the 1930s and 1940s warmer than the present :
[See plot]
Now it looks like this, with the 1930s and 1940s much cooler than the present.
[See plot]
The new technique is called “removing suspicious records” – i.e any record which doesn’t support his theory.
Hansen seems to have adopted a general strategy of warming the present by cooling the 1930s and 1940s.
[See blink comparators and 1940 Arctic warming documentation]
http://www.real-science.com/new-giss-data-set-heating-arctic?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Real-Science%2Ffeed+%28Real+Science%29
Cooling The Past In Nuuk
Posted on January 15, 2012 by Steven Goddard
Ole Heinrich points out that Hansen is cooling the past all over the Arctic. Compare the current Nuuk, with the one from a few weeks ago.
[See blink comparator]
Hansen must have spoken to his witch doctor, who told him that all temperatures before 1980 were exactly one degree too high, and that all temperatures since 1990 were a little too low.
[See adjustments plot]
Richard Muller (the skeptic) says that GISS data is all golden.
http://www.real-science.com/cooling-nuuk
Hansen Warming Things Up In Reykjavik
By Paul Homewood January 17, 2012
Following on from yesterday’s Icelandic Saga, I now have the real temperature records for Reykjavik from the Iceland Met Office. You will recall that GISS had recently altered their temperature records for several stations in Iceland and Greenland – full story here (Linked]. Information on the Iceland Met Office site did not seem to support Hansen’s revised figures, but now I have the full temperature record for Reykjavik from them, which shows how much GISS have adjusted their temperatures up by.
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http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/hansen-warming-things-up-in-reykjavik/
GISS Make The Past Colder In ReykjavikBy
Paul Homewood January 24, 2012
Yesterday while finishing off my post “NOAA Don’t Believe The Iceland Met Office”, by chance, I took another look at the latest GISS graph for Reykjavik, which is shown above. It showed, just as it had last week, that the temperature in 2003 was much higher than 1939 and 1941, which as we now know from the Iceland Met Office is not true. However something else looked wrong, that I could not put my finger on.
Fortunately, however, I had kept a printout of last week’s dataset and eventually I realised something else had changed. Effectively the scale had been shifted down, so that every singly year became about a degree cooler.
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Footnote
I have contacted the Iceland Met Office to get their view on the GHCN adjustments. Their reply could not be clearer :-
a) They were not aware these adjustments were being made.
b) They do not know why they have been made, but are asking!
c) They do not accept the “corrections” and have no intention of amending their own records.
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/giss-make-the-past-colder-in-reykjavik/
How GISS Has Totally Corrupted Reykjavik’s Temperatures
By Paul Homewood January 25, 2012
Now that GHCN have created a false warming trend in Iceland and Greenland , and GISS have amended every single temperature record on their database for Reykjavik going back to 1901 (except for 2010 and 2011), we should have a look at the overall effect.
[See plot]
The red line reflects the actual temperature records provided by the Iceland Met Office and shows quite clearly a period around 1940, followed by another 20 years later, which were much warmer than the 1970’s. GISS, as the blue line shows, have magically made this warm period disappear, by reducing the real temperatures by up to nearly 2 degrees.
Meanwhile the Iceland Met Office say that “The GHCN “corrections” are grossly in error in the case of Reykjavik”.
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/how-giss-has-totally-corrupted-reykjaviks-temperatures/
Google Warming: Google Sponsors Student To Fabricate “Global Warming” Temperatures For NASA
Corruption of climate science takes all sorts of forms – one is to fabricate global warming temperatures after the fact, using “correcting” algorithms that NASA / GISS favors, which it now appears to have been outsourced to a Google-funded effort – aka ‘Google Warming’
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The adjustments done to historical temperatures during 2011 provides further evidence that climate data corruption is alive and well within the climate science community. But the big surprise is who actually performed the magical global warming of Arctic regions….
Voila, we can now add the term ‘Google Warming’ to the climate debate – perhaps understood to mean the following?: “to fabricate global warming.”
http://www.c3headlines.com/2012/03/google-warming-google-sponsors-student-to-fabricate-global-warming-temperatures-for-nasa.html
Doing The Dirty Deed In Dublin
Posted on January 18, 2012 by Steven Goddard
Hansen just whacked a degree off all pre-1990 temperatures in Dublin.
[See blink comparator]
http://www.real-science.com/dirty-deed-dublin
Just out:
Hausfather et al
The Impact of Urbanization on Land Temperature Trends
While urban warming is a real phenomenon, it is overweighted in land temperature reconstructions due to the oversampling
of urban areas relative to their global land coverage. Rapid urbanization over the past three decades has likely contributed
to a modest warm bias in unhomogenized global land temperature reconstructions, with urban stations warming about ten
percent faster than rural stations in the period from 1979 to 2010. Urban stations are warming faster than rural stations on
average across all urbanity proxies, cutoffs, and spatial resolutions examined, though the underlying data is noisy and there
are many individual cases of urban cooling. Our estimate for the bias due to UHI in the land record is on the order of 0.03C
per decade for urban stations. This result is consistent with both the expected sign of the effect and regional estimates
covering the same time period (Zhou et al 2004) and differs from some recent work suggesting zero or negative UHI bias.
http://eposters.agu.org/files/2011/12/Hausfather-et-al-Urban-Trends.pdf
Anthony Watts does a summary of this work here
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/12/05/the-impact-of-urbanization-on-land-temperature-trends/
HadCRUT Continues To Plummet
Posted on December 26, 2011 by Steven Goddard
The HadCRUT November anomaly was the fourth lowest of the millennium.
http://www.real-science.com/hadcrut-continues-plummet?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Real-Science%2Ffeed+%28Real+Science%29
HadCRUT3v is the global land+ocean series (as opposed to other land-only series e.g. BEST)
GISTEMP anomaly is at 0 for the first time since 1993.
http://junksciencearchive.com/MSU_Temps/All_Comp.png
December 2011 datapoint. Baseline 30-year mean 1981-2010
Renowden may be crowing in ‘McLean’s folly 2: the reckoning’ but he’s ended his series at Nov, anomaly +0.51 C.
If he’d added Dec, the anomaly would be at 0 C
Might not be crowing 2012.
I’m at a loss to explain Gareth’s “GISS” plot. It shows a +0.51 C Nov 2011 anomaly from the “1880-2011 average”.
http://hot-topic.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Maclean1956outcome.png
But the current GISTEMP anomaly from the 1981-2010 30-year mean baseline also had +0.51 C (or close).
http://junksciencearchive.com/MSU_Temps/All_Comp.png
Also, the “GISS” series from 1978/12 – 2011/11 looks nothing like the corresponding GISTEMP series. Gareth’s “GISS” series was at 0 anomaly 1978/12 and does not go below that after but GISTEMP is at or below 0 six times after 1978/12, the last time being 1993/12.
Are “GISS” and GISTEMP two totally different series?
“GISS” might be land-only because the JunkScience source for GISTEMP is land+SST:-
http://junksciencearchive.com/MSU_Temps/GISSglobal.png
I had two more comments posted under the Dom Salinger article #75 and #76 addressed to RW, #75 is:-
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Nonentity #75 05:14 pm Jan 13 2012
RW #73, I see the leader of your local groupthink circle (Gareth Renowden at Hot Topic) has just used GISTEMP to crow about a 0.51 C Nov 2011 anomaly.
Good thing he didn’t end his series with the Dec 2011 anomaly (0, first time since 1993) otherwise he’d have to explain an exactly average anomaly.
Tricky, and a bit boring for the circle I would imagine.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/6229217/Extreme-is-the-new-normal
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It will be fun if RW responds and is printed (braces for causticism).
Answering my own question, Gareth’s data source is here:-
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata_v3/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt
Land-Ocean, base period: 1951-1980, I must be wrong about the “1981-2010 30-year mean baseline” for the JunkScience Monthly Mean plot.
Exactly the same data source as JunkScience for GISTEMP:-
http://junksciencearchive.com/MSU_Temps/GISSglobal.png
But what has Gareth plotted? (“the graph I created”)
First of all, the +0.51 C is the D-N Ann Mean anomaly, not “Jan – Nov 2011″ as he states and not the +0.48 Nov anomaly that I thought was +0.51 (my error)..
He’s plotted the D-N Ann Means at for each year – not the monthly anomalies and there’s obviously a lot less datapoints. There’s a negative monthly anomaly at 1994/2 that does not occur on “the graph I created”. His first negative anomaly is the 1976 Ann Mean.
http://hot-topic.co.nz/mcleans-folly-2-the-reckoning/
http://hot-topic.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Maclean1956outcome.png
2011 still much higher than 1956 though but he could be in for a rude shock when he plots the D-N Ann Mean at the end of this year.
Here’s the REAL land temps currently in Canterbury (forget NZT7 and Stevenson’s Screens)
10cm Soil Temperature degrees Celsius
http://www.hydroservices.co.nz/images/pdf/soil.pdf
The 10 C line is when “everything shuts down” apparently. That the current soil temperatures are close to the 10 C line so soon after summer (due to cloudiness) is not good from what I can gather.
As found at Hydro Services after watching ‘Rob’s Country’ on Central TV. Click on ‘AS SEEN ON CTV VIEW Previous Week’s Soil Temperatures’.
http://www.hydroservices.co.nz/
Central and CTV are different outfits, ‘Rob’s Country’ is a CTV programme that was based in the CTV building that collapsed in the earthquake. Rob was not in the building at the time and he operated out of Central in the Waikato for a while after I think.
What will these temps do to the SI-biased NZT7 2012 figure (12.8 2011, 13.1 2010)?
Lincoln is the only actual NZT7 location mentioned but some of the other SI locations are close by to Nelson, Hokitika and Dunedin at a stretch.
From our correspondent in South Canterbury:
I took last Monday afternoon off to go skiing with my son. it was minus 4 degrees C at 11am as we left the garage. It stayed at that temp until 10 km out of town, when it rose to a whole 1 degree C.
I’m guessing that it got a whole lot colder than -4 during the night. The 2cm of ice on the dogs drinking bowl might be a clue.
Unfortunately for ski lovers like myself, our local skifield (Dobson) is one of the few not open due to lack of snow
The high winds a week ago blew the snow away and there hasn’t been any snow since because of the high pressure system over the country.
Did you de-ice the dog?
No snow here in Tga either, sunny with schoolie girls out parading in miniskirts.
Our proxy for this being fog-bound Auckland Airport.
My concern for your dog arises from the Oymyakon doco. The inhabitants brought their horses (meat source apparently) in regularly to remove accumulated ice from their backs.
My dog gets to sleep inside. Mind you, I have seen the huskies sleeping outside in the snow in Norway. They breed them tough over there
Interesting development. Judith Curry features 3 papers from OUTSIDE of climate science and asks:-
JC comments: Each of these papers provides a fresh perspective on interpreting surface temperature data trends. The authors of all these papers have academic training and expertise that lies well outside of the field of atmospheric science and climatology. I have long said that fresh perspectives from outside the field of climate science are needed. Congrats to Ross for getting his paper published in Climate Dynamics, which is a high impact mainstream climate journal. My main question is whether the lead authors of the relevant IPCC AR5 chapter will pay attention to these papers; they should (and the papers meet the publication deadline for inclusion in the AR5).
http://judithcurry.com/2012/06/21/three-new-papers-on-interpreting-temperature-trends/
One of those papers is:-
Did the global temperature trend change at the end of the 1990s?
Tom Quirk
Institute of Public Affairs
Melbourne
Australia
http://ipa.org.au/library/publication/1339463007_document_break_paper_apjas_ipa.pdf
Chances of appearing in AR5 may be diminished by acknowledgment of 2 prominent sceptics:-
Acknowledgements: I have benefited greatly from discussions with William Kininmonth and in particular, David Stockwell who introduced me to the Chow Break Test.
Conclusion
There is a strong set of coincident events at or around 2000 that suggest the onset of a cool phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. This is supported by the decreasing humidity in the Northern Pacific Ocean after the break in 2000 (Figure 6) where the probability of the straight line fit showing no decrease is 3%. However for the global surface temperature this analysis has not established whether the cool phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation dominates the warm phase of the North Atlantic Decadal Oscillation.
The variations in global temperature, atmospheric CO2, water vapour and atmospheric methane all indicate the importance of the Atlantic and Pacific Decadal Oscillations. This is not easily taken into account in General Circulation Models and until there is a better understanding of the long term behaviour of the oceans, it must be a significant difficultly in projecting future temperatures.
NOTE: the Quirk paper is a “break point” analysis similar to what BOM used for ACORN-SAT and NZCSET used for the ‘Statistical Audit’ of NIWA’s 7SS.
NOAA Conducts Large-Scale Experiment And Proves Global Warming Skeptics Correct
So, what has this NOAA experiment found? The bottom image (Image #3) tells that story – when compared to measurements from the old, inaccurate, non-pristine network, temperature “warming” in the U.S. is being overstated anywhere from +0.5°C on average, up to almost +4.0°C (+0.9°F to +7.2°F) in some locations during the summer months.
To clarify, this range of overstatement depends on the given new and old stations being compared. However, when the new network versus old network results are examined in total, for the recent summer heat wave in the U.S., the old stations were reporting bogus warming during July that amounted to some +2.1°F higher than the actual temperatures.
What does this mean? Within the climate science realm, the old climate/weather station system had long been considered the best and most complete measurement network in the world. But when pitted against a brand new climate measurement system that has the best qualities that science can provide, we find that the traditional U.S. methodology is significantly overstating the “global warming” phenomenon. This means that if other countries replaced their own low quality network with NOAA’s greatest and latest technology, with the best location site standards applied, we would discover that world-wide temperature increases have been wildly overstated also.
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http://www.c3headlines.com/2012/09/noaa-conducts-large-scale-experiment-and-proves-global-warming-skeptics-correct.html
How GISS Temperatures Diverge From RSS
By Paul Homewood
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/how-giss-temperatures-diverge-from-rss/
Quoting:-
So, since 1998, GISS have found an extra 0.33C of warming that RSS cannot find. This is an astonishing figure, which effectively doubles the amount of warming found in total since 1979.
Comparison of GISS with HADCRUT and UAH shows a similar divergence.
As Doctor McCoy might have said “It’s temperature, Jim, but not as we know it”.
Have to say I’m astounded by the UAH and RSS January anomalies (0.3 C and more above Dec). I would have lost money betting on it.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/02/06/from-uah-global-temperature-report-january-2013/
“Compared to seasonal norms, over the past month the coldest area on the globe was east central Russia near the town of Nyagan, where temperatures for the month averaged as much as 2.51 C (about 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit) cooler than seasonal norms. Compared to seasonal norms, the “warmest” area on the globe in January was the Norwegian arctic archipelago of Svalbard, which is north of Norway and east of Greenland. Temperatures there averaged 4.1 C (about 7.4 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than seasonal norms for January.”
The Australian heat wave was just a minor contributor in this geo-spatial plot:-
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/january-2013.png?w=960&h=594
There must have been very sudden tropospheric warming in polar/sub-polar regions for unexplained reasons from what I can gather. But that is just what the warmists predict of course.
Ryan Maue – February 2013 global temperature anomaly compared to 1981-2010 mean: -0.001°C or 1/1000th of a degree below avg.
https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/307309843356725249
This after a January spike up.
Big drop in global surface temperature in February, ocean temps flat
By Dr. Roy Spencer
UAH Global Temperature Update for February, 2013: +0.18 deg. C
Our Version 5.5 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for February, 2013 is +0.18 deg. C, a large decrease from January’s +0.50 deg. C.
Global Microwave Sea Surface Temperature Update for Feb. 2013: -0.01 deg. C
The global average sea surface temperature (SST) update for Feb. 2013 is -0.01 deg. C, relative to the 2003-2006 average:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/03/04/big-drop-in-global-surface-temperature-in-february-ocean-temps-flat/#more-81350
HadAT2 (radiosonde balloons) has been updated through December 31, 2012
http://www.c3headlines.com/2013/02/ipccs-global-warming-hypothesis-fails-ultimate-test-no-tropical-hotspot-after-17-years-of-immense-co.html
No hotspot
http://c3headlines.typepad.com/.a/6a010536b58035970c017ee8a84864970d-pi
Boring.
Hi all. I’m wondering if anyone can direct me to some info on the disparities between the night and daytime global temperatures. Is the night warming faster than the day & if so does this prove AGW?
Cheers.
Long way to go on that Magoo. Some background:-
Fall et al. 2011: What We Learned About the Climate
http://blog.chron.com/climateabyss/2011/05/fall-et-al-2011-what-we-learned-about-the-climate/
According to the best-sited stations, the diurnal temperature range in the lower 48 states has no century-scale trend.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/05/19/according-to-the-best-sited-stations-the-diurnal-temperature-range-in-the-lower-48-states-has-no-century-scale-trend/
Comments On “The Shifting Probability Distribution Of Global Daytime And Night-Time Temperatures” By Donat and Alexander 2012 – A Not Ready For Prime Time Study
http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2012/08/21/comments-on-the-shifting-probability-distribution-of-global-daytime-and-night-time-temperatures-by-donat-and-alexander-2012-a-not-ready-for-prime-time-study/
Thanks Richard.
Magoo. Daytime Max temperature actually supports a sun-temperature connection – AGW not so much:-
Bob Carter: William M. Briggs: Willie Soon: ‘Changing Sun, changing climate’
http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=11282
“The reconfirmation now of a strong sun-temperature relation based specifically upon the daytime temperature maxima adds strong and independent scientific weight to the reality of the sun-temperature connection.
The close relationships between the abrupt ups and downs of solar activity and similar changes in temperature that we have identified occur locally in coastal Greenland; regionally in the Arctic Pacific and north Atlantic; and hemispherically for the whole circum-Arctic region. This suggests strongly that changes in solar radiation drive temperature variations on at least a hemispheric scale.
Close correlations like these simply do not exist for temperature and changing atmospheric CO2 concentration. In particular, there is no coincidence between the measured steady rise in global atmospheric CO2 concentration and the often dramatic multi-decadal (and shorter) ups and downs of surface temperature that occur all around the world.”
GISS Figures Out For February | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
While we waiting for HADCRUT, a quick look at GISS numbers for February, which are back down to 0.49C, from 0.60C in January.
The average for 2012 was 0.56C.
I really wanted, though, to show the GISS map for winter temperatures, i.e. Dec – Feb. The map shows the anomalies against the 1981-2010 baseline.
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The line at the top of the map shows that there is an anomaly of 0.10C – in other words, the Dec 2012 – Feb 2013 temperature is a mere 0.10C higher than the 1981-2010 baseline.
Yes, a mere 0.10C. And this during a winter when ENSO conditions have been neutral, so alarmists cannot even hide behind La Nina excuses.
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/giss-figures-out-for-february/
Latest UAH & RSS Numbers
April 8, 2013
By Paul Homewood
Both UAH and RSS are virtually unchanged. UAH is exactly the same at 0.18C, and RSS is up from 0.19 to 0.20C.
Both are around or below the level they were in Nov/Dec.
I thought we’d have a look at longer term trends today though. Using HADCRUT4 numbers, I have plotted the monthly numbers since 1979, with a 10-year running average.
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/image_thumb15.png?w=1008&h=616
Within the last decade, temperatures have definitely flatlined. For instance, the latest 12-month average is 0.47C, and this compares with a figure of 0.49C for 2002.
But, intriguingly, the longer term, 10-year average also stopped rising at the end of 2010, and has actually started to fall back. This is not clear on the scale of the above graph, but zooming in below illustrates it well.
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/image_thumb16.png?w=1008&h=596
The amounts may be small, but the evidence is clear – the world has been getting colder in the last few years. This is not down to a single year’s figures, nor ENSO variations, as the 10 year span will even out such fluctuations.
Perhaps we really should be worrying about global cooling again.
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/latest-uah-rss-numbers/
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So much for the Foster and Rahmstorf script too.