RSS Data Source is here
The RSS (Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa, CA) Microwave Sounder Unit (MSU) lower troposphere global temperature anomaly data for January 2009 was published yesterday and has risen significantly. This is the new data version, 3.2 which changed in October. The change from December with a value of 0.174°C to January’s 0.322°C is a (∆T) of +0.148°C.
RSS
2008 1 -0.070
2008 2 -0.002
2008 3 0.079
2008 4 0.080
2008 5 -0.083
2008 6 0.035
2008 7 0.147
2008 8 0.146
2008 9 0.241 (V3.1)
2008 10 0.181 (V3.2)
2008 11 0.216 (V3.2)
2008 12 0.174 (V3.2)
2009 01 0.322 (V3.2)
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Good for the planet. However, I’d have been more than happy to accept a nice cooling this year in the hopes of staving off this administrations aggressive ‘climate change’ policies that are about to be imposed upon the U.S.
The politicians only know one way to combat the’ problem’: Make coal, oil and gas so expensive that nobody can afford to use them.
I’m sick to death of these “alarmist” tree huggers! Christopher Booker hits the nail on the head, as you do! Keep up the good work. For climate change, read NATURE!
Perhaps this is the result of the rather large SSW that occurred in Jan.??
Looks like the Aussie barbeque more than offset the Northern icebox.
Ah. I see the climate is behaving as it always has.
Wow, my energy usage for heat says this was way colder this year . . . I guess they must have averaged out my area.
Maybe its on crack. It was 7F here in western nc this morning 😛
hm, I would not be surprised if the good people at RSS need to take another look at this. The tropics have a similar value to december, but extratropic NH is +0,3; SH +0,2 and USA a whopping +1,0. That does not compute with what I’ve read and experienced about temperatures in Europe and the US, though I realize the Northern hemisphere is bigger than that.
At the same time, the ENSO index takes a dive. I know that there is a delayed reaction between Nino 3.4 region and the rest of the world, but I thought it was about 3 months. Back then the region had already stopped warming, as far as I know.
On the other hand, RSS makes similar and bigger jumps between December and January in ’02/’03, ’04/’05 and ’06/’07, so it fits a pattern… though not a clue what could explain such a thing or if it’s just random. If it’s not a pattern, at least it’s not unusual.
Not quite on topic, but I was wondering – if CO2 increases on a parts per million basis, what is it crowding out. Is it crowding out other greenhouse gasses?
Perhaps AGW theory has some legs. This appears to be quite a jump.
It must have been without any help from the UK, which has been cold as of late. Where in the world has all the warming occurred?
I think these brief spikes are to be expected. Like the very brief one in Jan 2007. It’s a bit early to say, but overall, there’s the appearance of having passed the crest of a hill occurring in 2004-2005.
Must be the Land TLTs because the TLT over the Oceans only increased by 0.017 deg C.
http://www.remss.com/data/msu/monthly_time_series/RSS_Monthly_MSU_AMSU_Channel_TLT_Anomalies_Ocean_v03_2.txt
Yup, it was the land TLTs. They jumped by 0.429 deg C.
http://www.remss.com/data/msu/monthly_time_series/RSS_Monthly_MSU_AMSU_Channel_TLT_Anomalies_Land_v03_2.txt
For those interested, global SST anomalies (OI.v2 SST) decreased by 0.018 deg C.
http://i40.tinypic.com/1js3kw.jpg
The rest of the SST anomaly update (subdivided by hemispheres and oceans) is here:
http://bobtisdale.blogspot.com/2009/02/january-2009-sst-anomaly-update.html
Regards
Looks like Global Warming is back!
(waits for all the abuse!)
this is curious though in light of all of the extremely cold temps we experienced globally……call me a bit surprised. i was expecting a low month.
Dave
Good question: click
Without doing the stats, there appears to be a consistent shift in the data upward correlating with the version change… coincidence?
For those watching available global summary data, this January number is not a surprise. UAH will have a similar report — see http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/execute.csh?amsutemps+002
Of interest to me will the explanation of how so many land temperatures can be so cold / cool with such a divergence in global tropospheric temperatures. John Christy has been quoted that this phenomenon has happened before in the presence of abundant tropical rainfall. There seems to be some gap in the explanation, and I am looking forward to hearing more.
That’s a little higher than I expected. I was targeting .25-.3 anomaly. There was a large stratospheric warming event over Greenland in Jan. No idea what it means, but it’s clearlt unusual.
Still cooler than Jan 07 by a good bit.
I’ve read (somewhere) that global temps follow the SOI by about 6-9 months. As it turns out, the SOI was at it’s most negative about 8 months ago, and has gotten steadily more positive ever since.
I expect this to likely be the warmest month (anomaly wise) of the year, and it should be steadily cooler.
mark (08:33:15) : this is curious though in light of all of the extremely cold temps we experienced globally……call me a bit surprised. i was expecting a low month.
Note that we are talking +0.322 (around 0.5F) above January 29 years ago. That isn’t very much. Even if introduced suddenly, you probably wouldn’t notice it. When it comes to cold, does it really matter if it’s 10F vs. 10.5F?
FWIW: The January temps in the DC area have been what can only be described as mild for January. We not only had a January thaw but Super Bowl weekend saw temperatures in the low 60’s. Hardly winter weather in these parts. How many more places with deltas of +20F or more would it take to raise the world average temperature by 0.5F? Does this answer your question?
What am I missing here? How is this change “significant”? It’s only just a little more than 1 sd above the mean of the changes in RSS.
I wondered for a minute if it included data from “Dirty Harry”.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/going_cold_on_antarctic_warming#48360
Since it is satellite data it can not of course.
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How did we get in this lose-lose situation? Continuing downward temperatures can’t be good for mankind. However, any upward turns in temperature, no matter how short, may give the AGW alarmists the ammo they need to get their draconian and destructive energy policies enacted. Arrrrrgh, what should I cheer for?
Dave (08:23:51) :
“Perhaps AGW theory has some legs. This appears to be quite a jump.
It must have been without any help from the UK, which has been cold as of late. Where in the world has all the warming occurred?”
Dave,
AGW theory has no legs.
It’s a hoax.
Read: Greenhouse Theory Disproved a Century Ago at http://www.icecap.us