Submitted by Charlton Stanley (aka Otteray Scribe), Guest Blogger
Approximately 1,000 weather reporting stations all over the world have been monitoring local temperatures for decades. Temperature data have been compiled and analyzed by NASA scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.
Nine of the 10 warmest years on record have occurred since the year 2000. The tenth? From the 20th Century, that was 1998. Temperature rise is not completely steady and consistent from one year to the next. That is due to factors such as volcanic eruptions and other natural causes; however, trends are the important thing.
We can see from the short video below the flip that Earth continues to experience warmer temperatures than several decades ago. The average temperature around the globe in 2011 was 0.92 degrees F (0.51 C) warmer than the mid-20th century baseline. Weather experts warn that a consistent global average change of even a half-degree Fahrenheit can have catastrophic effects on global weather patterns. Anyone recall April and May 2011?
130 years in 27 seconds:
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Bob Kauten remove the —->DOT<——- I inserted, it so the wordpress spam filter would not send my comment off to moderation
As to your get a science education you just might be surprised
Learn to recognize what you see in a link
Stop being a clicker. Thats how you spread viruses :))))
Hence the reason for this comment
Nal 1, August 5, 2013 at 6:34 pm
Personanongrata,
A maximum of two links per comment is allowed.
I suspect this person is a blog moderator and instead of just approving my comments he/she decides to give me a warm welcome LOL
Joe Blow,
So clue me in do the Koch’s pay you by the comment, or by the word. Also how does it feel to prostitute yourself for money, or don’t you care?
Bob Kauten remove the —->DOT<——- I inserted, it so the wordpress spam filter would not send my comment off to moderation
As to your get a science education you just might be surprised
Learn to recognize what you see in a link
I put the bait out but nobody bit
http://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/persistent-arctic-cyclone-2013-churns-on-shattering-central-arctic-sea-ice-arctic-interior-continues-to-warm/
Now what happens now that the Summer Melt Season is over now all the ice is spread out over a larger extent and will refreeze creating older thicker ice next year.
david2575,
Please stop living up to my expectations. You’ve become totally predictable.
Joe Blow,
None of your links work. Did you think no one would try them?
“Global Warming is suppose to make…………More Extreme
I will be more than glad to show you it ain’t happening.”
OK, I’ll call your bluff. Publish it in a peer-reviewed climate science journal.
Then I’ll read it. You’ll be world-famous. With all of your advanced knowledge, you must have your own Koch research group.
Don’t send us to videos. Anyone can aver anything, in a video.
While you’re getting your bachelor’s degree, try learning how URLs are formed.
http://www.summitcamp—–>DOT<—–org/status/webcam/
isn't a URL.
Are you getting paid by the comment?
Whatever you're being paid, you're not worth it.
Get a science education.
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/old_icecover.uk.php
By Paul Beckwith
On March 23, 2013, I made the following prediction:
“For the record—I do not think that any sea ice will survive this summer. An event unprecedented in human history is today, this very moment, transpiring in the Arctic Ocean.
The cracks in the sea ice that I reported in my Sierra blog and elsewhere have spread. Worse news is at this very moment the entire sea ice sheet (or about 99 percent of it) covering the Arctic Ocean is on the move (clockwise), and the thin, weakened icecap has literally begun to tear apart.
This is abrupt climate change in real-time.
http://www.sierraclub.ca/en/AdultDiscussionPlease
Again Arctic Sea Ice Extent is near the level of 2006 and is close to the highest extent in 9 years for the date near the end of this years Summer Melt Season
RTC – thought you were on a roll when you talked about the data being imperfect and the difficulties of the science, but then you said this:
“Climate science is still relatively young, but the data collected is genuine, and there are many ways of testing its accuracy and the reliability of predictions drawn from it.”
With ClimateGate, there has been increased suspicion about the data being genuine, and concerns about the fudging of data. Scientists can claim whatever numbers they want when they publish something. Obviously if they fudge too much, they will be caught when people try to replicate it, so they have to be pretty clever. This is what seems to have have happened to some degree with the emails that were leaked from the Climatic Research Center. I am talking about the Phil Jones email that said:
“I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps
to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from
1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.”
You see, when data does not fit a scientist’s paradigm, many of them will exclude data or manipulate data mathematically to smooth it out and show what he wants it to show. There is intense pressure for them to publish at universities. Publishing is everything to a scientist. Following is how one scientist justifies Mike’s trick:
“CRU’s Jones used the word ‘hide’ in a private communication because that was his intent – to hide the awkward bit of data which did not fit the upward trajectory of the warming chart.”
No lie. He was honestly justifying this action because this is what scientists do when the awkward bit of data does not fit what they want to show. Other scientists named Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick demonstrated how the trend they were trying to show was not statistically significant.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2004GL021750/abstract
See the following for an analysis of Mike’s trick and the hiding of Keith’s declining data:
http://climateaudit.org/2009/11/20/mike%E2%80%99s-nature-trick/
The science question of global warming hinges on three issues:
1) In light of clear data misconduct, is the data reliable?
2) If the data are reliable, are the differences significant enough to warrant concern?
3) Is it actual human activity that increases CO2 emissions significant enough to be causing it?
What raises my alarm flags is when a scientist presents climate information and then concludes with certainty that global warming caused by human activity is a fact. When they get angry if someone were to question them or be skeptical about this so-called statement of fact, I get a bit curious.
You mentioned many ways of testing its accuracy and testing the reliability of predictions drawn from the data. What did you have in mind? Care to make a prediction?
So far, burning fossil fuel seems to be the best explanation presented. That does not make it right. But until a more convincing explanation is presented, burning fossil fuel is the explanation that reasonable people will use.
That’s why I started with Global Warming is suppose to……..
Should have said increasing levels of CO2 and left warming out of it however now that we are past the 350PPM safe zone we are suppose to be experiencing Runaway Global Warming and it ain’t happening as there has been a pause in the warming over the past 15 years..
You keep hearing that tornadoes will get worse…..Hurricanes bigger, floods wide spread, droughts to be permanent. On and on and on. Pick anyone and I will show you that it is not. In fact all ready gave you a few. Not my fault if you can not make the connection.
“Is it warmer now or during the Medieval Warming Period ”
No one that I know of has suggested that there were not warmer periods in the past.
Warm periods in the past suggest there may be other causes for global warming. The fact that there have been warmer and cooler periods certainly makes us wonder about the causes of those periods, and if those causes could account for what we see occurring now. But warmer or cooler periods in the past in no way refute the clear evidence that global warming is occurring in this period. Nor do warm periods in the past refute that burning fossil fuel is the most likely explanation for global warming in this period.
The claim is that in the past 100 years or so global warming has occurred and further that warming corresponds to the increased use of fossil fuel. In addition the people who make that claim have some pretty good theories on the mechanism by which burning fossil fuel would interact with the environment to cause the warming.
Sure, there might be some other cause. But if there is a reasonable basis to believe some other factor accounts for global warming then the people who hold that view should describe that factor. And they should present a reasonable explanation of how that factor interacts with the environment to cause the warming.
So far, burning fossil fuel seems to be the best explanation presented. That does not make it right. But until a more convincing explanation is presented, burning fossil fuel is the explanation that reasonable people will use.
The Planet is getting Greener because
Allan Savory claims in the video that they are using his method of greening the planet on 15 million hectares on 5 continents
Allan Savory claims in the video that control burns of lands that if you burn one hectare of land gives off more pollutants than 6000 automobiles.
Who thinks controlled burns of forest is a good thing. In some cases burning, controlled or not is a good thing because with out it certain trees will not reproduce.
Allan Savory in the video claims he was responsible for the murder of 40,000 Elephants. All at the cost of his belief. After rethinking his belief he realized he was wrong. Re-educate yourself and you will all see you are wrong about the effects of C02 then what you are lead to believe.
Personanongrata,
A maximum of two links per comment is allowed.
The World is Greening because of men like Allan Savory
Open Your Mind and Free Yourself
Open Your Mind and Free Yourself
Nice provide evidence to the contrary and get attacked and labeled as a troll.
Dispute the facts don’t attack the messenger
In a paper published June 7 in the journal Global Ecology and Biogeography, researchers present evidence that over the past century, vegetation has been gradually moving toward the poles and up mountain slopes, where temperatures are cooler, as well as toward the equator, where rainfall is greater.
The planet is getting greener because there is so much more CO2 in the atmosphere after all it is plant food.
Global warming, roughly, is a long term rise in average seasonal temperatures. We know that is happening because we have data for the past 100 years of so that demonstrate that is happening.
WoW 100 years is a long time. Is it warmer now or during the Medieval Warming Period
and the temperature record is only as good as recorded not by going back an adjusting the record cooler. This is called data tampering.