The 10 last years: unmistakable global warming
Globally, 9 of the 10 warmest years on record occurred since 2000 Environmental news Network, From: Reuters January 20, 2012 The global average temperature last year was the ninth-warmest in the modern meteorological record, continuing a trend linked to greenhouse gases that saw nine of the 10 hottest years occurring since the year 2000, NASA scientists said on Thursday.
A separate report from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said the average temperature for the United States in 2011 as the 23rd warmest year on record.
The global average surface temperature for 2011 was 0.92 degrees F (0.51 degrees C) warmer than the mid-20th century baseline temperature, researchers at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies said in a statement. The institute’s temperature record began in 1880.
The first 11 years of the new century were notably hotter than the middle and late 20th century, according to institute director James Hansen. The only year from the 20th century that was among the top 10 warmest years was 1998.
These high global temperatures come even with the cooling effects of a strong La Nina ocean temperature pattern and low solar activity for the past several years, said Hansen, who has long campaigned against human-spurred climate change.
The NASA statement said the current higher temperatures are largely sustained by increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, especially carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is emitted by various human activities, from coal-fired power plants to fossil-fueled vehicles to human breath.
Current levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere exceed 390 parts per million, compared with 285 ppm in 1880 and 315 by 1960, NASA said. http://www.enn.com/ecosystems/article/43880
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In other words…last year was one of the coldest in recent history; that’s what the statistics actually show.
Sitting in my cold, damp house here in England I’m really concerned about this recent global cooling trend.
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Yes, last year was one of the coldest in RECENT history. Climate scientists do not expect EVERY year to be hotter than the recent years.
Over a period of one hundred years, average global temperatures can clearly be shown to be steadily rising, with more extreme rises in recent decades.
Along with global warming come many climate changes – and these include extreme weather conditions. Extremes mean not only more frequent events such as hurricanes and tornadoes, but also changes in rainfall patterns, and yes, extremes of temperature – low as well as high.
It is the average global atmospheric temperature over several decades that matters.
Conditions in one winter in one cold damp house in England cannot be taken as evidence for global climate trends.
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Actually I’m all in favour of a bit of man-made global warming for England…I just don’t believe it’s happening though. At the moment our fuel bills and transport costs are sky high, mainly due to the government and global business’ insistence on listening to every word that the climate alarmists say.
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It is certainly a nice fantasy , but of course – a contradiction in terms, that Lee’s small patch of the world could get “a bit of global warming”.
Climate science is studying the whole world’s weather patterns, and is not responsible for the messup of the British government’s energy policies – a messup that can only get worse as they sting taxpayers for the costs of their planned nuclear power expansion.
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