On Aug 11, 12:47 pm, William M Connolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The title of this thread, "Suppose the temperature record was wrong . . ." is very misleading. There are many global temperature records. Please see below.
> On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Namely 0.6 to 2.4 W/m2. Say we are at the low end of that range, say > > 0.8 W/m2, then a climate sensitivity of 3C and thermal lag might only > > give us 0.3C. > > The MSU record is now fairly consistent with the sfc. At least since 1979, you > probably can't get away with lowering the trend too much. And there is the > marine record too. In addition, you have the radiosonde launch time and the borehole records. -- The global ground weather station network shows warming: These data are from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt The yearly means of these data are graphed here: http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/Global%20Mean%20Temp.jpg These data come from Hadley Centre: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/hadcrut3gl.txt The yearly means of these data are graphed here: http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/HadCRUT3gl.jpg -- The balloon record shows this same surface level warming: http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/temp/angell/angell.html The global ground data are graphed here: http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/Angell-Balloon.jpg -- The satellite record, in all its current interpretations, shows that the air near the surface is warming too: The URL below is one of the more conservative records from the University of Alabama at Huntsville. http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/public/msu/t2lt/tltglhmam_5.2 The global data are graphed here: http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/UAH-MSU.jpg The Remote Sensing Systems Lower Troposphere (TLT) analysis shows a 0.18K/Decade rise over the land and sea. http://www.remss.com/data/msu/monthly_time_series/RSS_Monthly_MSU_AMSU_Channel_TLT_Anomalies_Land_and_Ocean_v03_0.txt The data from 82.5N to 70S are graphed here; http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/RSS-MSU.jpg -- The bore hole record: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/pollack.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
