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



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