Try this one for daily temps - and compare for at least this century - heaps of fun. Unlike you guys. 2010 was trending to be the warmest ever.
http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/ Have a look at this one - a very pretty picture - a big, big La Nina in the central Pacific and a planet cooling off. Frigid, nutrient rich and quite acidic water rising from the briny depths in the Humboldt Current. I predict a huge increase in biological productivity across the Pacific. http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/data/sst/anomaly/2010/anomnight.9.16.2010.gif I hesitate to link to Roy Spencer but it is the monthly data that is most relevant to ENSO. http://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/ Global temp peaked in July and can't go anywhere but down. I just heard on the radio this morning that Arctic ice extent this year was the third lowest. You might tell Eric that the definition of climate as the average of weather is the one the IPCC promotes. http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/faq-1-2.html All your link does is show forcing increasing over the decades. So what? There is not a scintilla of methodology. I am supposed to accept this on faith? All there here is a bogging down in detail that is approximate when not totally misleading, totally uncalled for, but typical, taunts of rants, accusation of failure to understand something as simple as that the world is as warm as it has been for at least a thousand years, bald decalaration of nonsense, a failure to discuss (elided) any of the issues, accusations that I failed to respond when clearly I discussed aerosols in the context of the logical requirement for completeness in even a moderately cogent argument. Overall - a lamentable failure to see the big picture. 'The ideal integration of changes of atmospheric composition and cloud cover on radiant flux balance is of course the satellite TOA data. This indicates that cloud cover changes - associated with ENSO - is the major cause of ocean and atmosphere warming in the satellite era. CERES - Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System - since 1999 shows a similar effect. The satellites actually show cooling in the LW. The IPCC argues that the satellite record is inconsistent with surface cloud observations. Which is not correct - at least for cloud in the most important areas of the Pacific.' Amy Clement and colleagues did a fairly recent study collating cloud observations in the Pacific - they called it a positive global warming feedback. http://isccp.giss.nasa.gov/projects/browse_fc.html http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch3s3-4-4-1.html Study the NESDIS NOAA SST anomaly linked to above and combine it with an understanding of the state of the ocean indices below - and you might just get an appreciation of natural variation. http://ioc-goos-oopc.org/state_of_the_ocean/ The world is full of fools and charlatans - defined here as post modernist types who have forgotten in their hubris, or never ever understood, the need for an appropriate intellectual openness and modesty. On Sep 17, 11:53 am, "David B. Benson" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 16, 6:43 pm, "David B. Benson" <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > Well, maybe 2010 will be right up near the top for > global temperature: > "NASA reports hottest January to August on > record"http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/12/nasahottest-january-to-august-o... -- 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
