Faux Pause 2: Warmest November On Record As New Studies Confirm Warming Trend

[Bill USA]

http://theenergycollective.com/josephromm/317456/faux-pause-2-warmest-november-record-reports-nasa-new-studies-confirm-warming-tren

Last month saw the hottest global November surface temperature on record, according to the latest data from NASA.

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Earth’s surface temperature in °C for each November since 1880 (compared to base period, 1951-1980). Red line is smoothing with a 15-year filter.


Of course, the global surface temperature is only one of many indicators the planet just keeps warming, as I wrote in my September post, “Faux Pause: Ocean Warming, Sea Level Rise And Polar Ice Melt Speed Up, Surface Warming To Follow.”

Now two new studies demolish the myth that warming — including surface warming — has not continued apace. Stefan Rahmstorf, Co-Chair of Earth System Analysis at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, discusses the first paper at RealClimate:

A new study by British and Canadian researchers shows that the global temperature rise of the past 15 years has been greatly underestimated. The reason is the data gaps in the weather station network, especially in the Arctic. If you fill these data gaps using satellite measurements, the warming trend is more than doubled in the widely used HadCRUT4 data, and the much-discussed “warming pause” has virtually disappeared.

“There are no permanent weather stations in the Arctic Ocean, the place on Earth that has been warming fastest,” as New Scientist explained five years ago.[font color="red" size="4"] “The UK’s Hadley Centre record simply excludes this area, whereas the NASA version assumes its surface temperature is the same as that of the nearest land-based stations.”[/font]

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1. November and so far December haven't been

warm at all around these parts.

[Bill USA]

2. thanks for anecdote. Sample size = 1; variance of sample not computable. see link to NASA

worldwide temp measurements.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata_v3/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt


... ponder.

[hatrack]

3. And I thank you!

Nothing like yet another Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness for some afternoon spice ...