From Philip Gentry at UAH April temperatures (preliminary)
Global composite temp.: +0.19 C (about 0.34 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for April.
Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decade
Northern Hemisphere: +0.36 C (about 0.65 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for April.
Southern Hemisphere: +0.02 C (about 0.04 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for April.
Tropics: +0.09 C (about 0.16 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for April.
March temperatures (revised):
Global Composite: +0.17 C above 30-year average
Northern Hemisphere: +0.34 C above 30-year average
Southern Hemisphere: ±0.00 C at 30-year average
Tropics: ±0.00 C at 30-year average
(All temperature anomalies are based on a 30-year average (1981-2010) for the month reported.)
Notes on data released May 6, 2014:
Compared to seasonal norms, the coldest place in Earth’s atmosphere in April was over the western Antarctic by the Ross Ice Shelf, where temperatures were as much as 3.32 C (about 6.0 degrees Fahrenheit) cooler than seasonal norms, according to Dr. John Christy, a professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. Compared to seasonal norms, the warmest departure from average in April was in southeastern Russia near the town of Chita. Temperatures there were as much as 5.69 C (about 10.3 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than seasonal norms.
Archived color maps of local temperature anomalies are available on-line at:
As part of an ongoing joint project between UAHuntsville, NOAA and NASA, Christy and Dr. Roy Spencer, an ESSC principal scientist, use data gathered by advanced microwave sounding units on NOAA and NASA satellites to get accurate temperature readings for almost all regions of the Earth. This includes remote desert, ocean and rain forest areas where reliable climate data are not otherwise available.
The satellite-based instruments measure the temperature of the atmosphere from the surface up to an altitude of about eight kilometers above sea level. Once the monthly temperature data is collected and processed, it is placed in a “public” computer file for immediate access by atmospheric scientists in the U.S. and abroad.
Neither Christy nor Spencer receives any research support or funding from oil, coal or industrial companies or organizations, or from any private or special interest groups. All of their climate research funding comes from federal and state grants or contracts.
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Truth will win out in the end.
Test.
Nature refuses to play ball.
Now they are in a panic due to reports like this herein above. So they trot out hacks like John Podesta to shill the lie for them. The billionairs who say Obama must go full bore on Climate Change or they will not fork over the $100 million they promise to the Democrats.
So they panic, yet this never ending cry of “wolf climate coming” now falls on tired ears.
Al Roaker is to croke it out on a TV interview with the know nothing President on DateLie NBC tonight is one more example of how desperate they are becoming.
Keep up the fact attacks. They have no defense other than newold lies.
I see a fairly well-defined sine wave in that graph – is it just me? Isn’t it trending back toward the “0.0” axis since about 2010?
What would count as a significant change in temperature?
Jonathan Abbey says: “What would count as a significant change in temperature?”
A response to the El Nino that’s brewing.
Speaking of the brewing El Nino, the weekly sea surface temperature anomalies in all of the commonly used NINO regions are warmer than the +0.5 deg C threshold of an El Nino, with the exception of the NINO3.4 region. But it’s still right on the verge of it. For the values, see the full sea surface temperature update for April 2014:
http://bobtisdale.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/april-2014-sea-surface-temperature-sst-anomaly-update/
It does appear that UAH temps respond well to ENSO events.
The map is distorted, but good news is that Himalaya glaciers seem to be safe. However 500,002 sq mi of Gobi desert seems to risk boiling over. Never mind the natural seasonal variation from -40°F to 122°F and 24 hour variation can shift within 63°F. It’s our fault, right?
:The map is distorted, but good news is that Himalaya glaciers seem to be safe. However 500,002 sq mi of Gobi desert seems to risk boiling over. Never mind the natural seasonal variation from -40°F to 122°F and 24 hour variation can shift within 63°F. It’s our fault, right?”
you are mistaking ANOMALIES for temperature.
dont do that.
Next, these are temperature anomalies for the atmosphere 8 km UP.
not the surface!
If you want to check the diurnal ranges at that altitude and seasonsal ranges you will need to use a different sat product. RSS could be used for seasonal, AIRS for Diurnal.
Do you guys ever look at data and its documentation?
Bob Tisdale says May 6, 2014 at 12:37 pm – But it’s still right on the verge of it.
Yep, SOI is trying on the plunging neckline party wear again …
http://s17.postimg.org/kbinw2vjh/Troup_SOI.png
UAH for April for version 5.6 went up from 0.170 in March to 0.190 in April. If I assume version 5.5 will also go up by 0.02, then the 4 month average becomes 0.165. If it were to stay at 0.165, 2014 would rank 10th. The time for a slope of 0 would be at least 9 years and 8 months for version 5.5, but it could go back further.
RSS for April came out at 0.251. That makes the 4 month average 0.222 and tied for 9th place. The length of time for a slope of 0 increases to 17 years and 9 months.
(Hadcrut3 for March is still not out!)
Nature does its own thing, refuses to comply with the IPCC models. But suddenly we have discovered that climate changes. It changes due to humans and that is bad. It never changed before humans started producing CO2. Oh for the good old days when we lived in trees and caves with the monkeys and bears.
If you wanted to cleverly cherry-pick…
Temperatures this month are the same as they were 1996, 1991, and 1988…. And substantially cooler than they were in 1998! 8<) Ain't good science, but makes a good sound-bite.
Everyone who is concerned about what is going on in in our country should read The Contract On The Government. It is the book the politicians and bureaucrats DO NOT want you to read. Find out more here: http://www.thecontract.us/
We should start a petition preventing Dr. John Christy from ever retiring.
Steven Mosher says: May 6, 2014 at 1:02 pm
“you are mistaking ANOMALIES for temperature. dont do that.”
Is that how you understood it? In my area of expertise anomalies and variations aren’t synonyms.
“Do you guys ever look at data and its documentation?”
Si vous pouvez me tutoyer, ça me fera plaisir ≈ no need to address me formally in plural form.
In my experience ‘anomaly’ means observers have to verify the raw data to find the truth. However tempting, I’m not planning a trip to Gobi desert to check how that’s obtained.
If you mean with ‘you guys’ skeptics in general, your contribution is specifically expected on this particular matter below http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/05/06/ive-been-waiting-for-this-statement-and-the-national-climate-assessment-has-helpfully-provided-it/
just read over at Jo NOva that man adds 4% to the worlds total co2 output.
So let’s pretend that co2 has added a degree of warming.
So Man is responsible for 0.04 of a degree of that 1 degree of warming. Dam the natural world for the rest.
Bob Tisdale May 6, 2014 at 12:37 pm:
“What would count as a significant change in temperature?” “Speaking of the brewing El Nino”
Thanks for the message, Brother Bob: And what do El Ninos cause? (Chorus everybody) GLOBAL WARMING!!
Our education is well under way (free of charge) just in case. Negative PDO, Sun activity tailing off for last 50 years, all those cosmic ray clouds – what if temps go up? El Nino to the rescue
Mosher @ur momisugly 1:02 pm scolds Jaako. Nevermind that there is a huge “hot spot” over the Gobi that indicates it is running a high anomaly… nope, Mosher has to make sure to put Jaako in his/her place.
Well played Mosher! (perhaps Jaako knew and still through out a sarcastic remark, eh?)
richard,
Big picture: Man is responsible for 100% of the suffering endured worldwide by rocks and trees and sundry “innocent” creatures, so the honorable thing for Man to do is commit suicide to Save the Planet.
Steven Mosher says:
May 6, 2014 at 1:02 pm
Next, these are temperature anomalies for the atmosphere 8 km UP.
not the surface!
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Well it does say layer= lower troposphere, not tropopause, so to an eejit like me that would mean all that’s from the ground up to about 2km. If it’s any different you might want to edit wiki.
I don’t understand why, if the warmista are so concerned about their future generations, that they just stop breeding them. Problem solved.
WaPo propaganda on full display!
a correction prominently displayed above the headline:
Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the Koch brothers, Charles and David, founded the Cato Institute. Charles Koch was a co-founder; his brother was not. This version has been corrected.
6 May: WaPo: Darryl Fears: U.S. climate report says global warming impact already severe
Video: Global warming is rapidly turning America the beautiful into America the stormy, sneezy and dangerous
“The report affirms a number of things we have known,” said Katharine Hayhoe, a Texas Tech University professor and lead co-author of the changing-climate chapter of the assessment…
Other contrarians include libertarians at the Cato Institute, co-founded by Charles Koch, one of two brothers whose multibillion-dollar fortune is partly derived from fossil fuels, and are well-known to deny the impacts of climate change.
Cato researchers Paul C. Knappenberger and Patrick J. Michaels said the assessment was “biased toward pessimism,” the opposite of how Wolfe described it. As a resource, it is meant to justify “federal regulation aimed towards mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.”…
By the end of the century, temperatures could be up to 5 degrees higher if the nation acts aggressively to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from industry, or up to 10 degrees if emissions are high…
More from The Washington Post:
Global warming over the last century, in one graphic
For Obama, a renewed focus on climate change and the environment
All but certain humans are causing global warming
East Antarctica in peril from warming
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-climate-report-says-global-warming-impact-already-severe/2014/05/06/0e82cd3c-d49c-11e3-aae8-c2d44bd79778_story.html
I love the long break in the warming trend, but natural factors are sure to reverse and create another warming cycle. When it does, I hope that public statements will have noted the trend in advance.