World Climate Widget
NEWS: An iPhone version is in the works, with more features. See it at the end of this page. An imporved version of the sidebar widget will also be forthcoming soon. Check this page for updates.
When the Alpha and Beta testing is complete, this page will offer links to a larger graph, plus source data as well as alternate data for comparisons.
This experimental widget uses the UAH lower troposphere temperature data as well as the Mauna Loa CO2 data combined with NOAA SWPC solar information. Additional versions of this widget may appear on this page, check for updates regularly.
Static test image - don't use this one - see below
This widget and page is in the process of being updated. It is currently in early “alpha” development. You can place the widget on your website if you wish, as the URL for the image will remain static as new developments occur. The widget will be updated daily. though updates may be erratic until the code and process is fully complete.
GET YOUR OWN SIDEBAR WIDGET BELOW:
This sidebar widget can be used for any website or blog by anyone free of charge.
There are only two requirements for its use:
1. It links back to this page so that others may find how to use it.
2. It is not modified or sold for any commercial purpose
Here is the code to place in your WordPress or website sidebar:
<a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/widget/"> <img title="Click to get your own widget" src="http://cache4.intelliweather.net/wcw/world_climate_widget_sidebar.gif" alt="Click to get your own widget" width="166" height="223" /></a>
Simply cut and paste the code into Notepad (or other text editor) to clear any formatting then paste into your website sidebar section as HTML.
Or you may also simply copy and paste the entire widget image from above.
FOR MAC USERS:
If you want to add the image to Mac OS X Dashboard, open the link in Safari:
http://cache4.intelliweather.net/wcw/world_climate_widget_sidebar.gif
Select “Open in Dashboard” under the file menu.
Click on the image.
Click the “Add” button.
I make no guarantees on the timeliness of update or 24/7 availablity of the widget while in development.
Comments welcome, particularly ideas for different versions with alternate data displayed. Bear in mind I do this on a volunteer basis, so I don’t have a lot of time for extensive development. If anyone wishes to develop this into a from iPhone app, please leave a comment below. – Anthony
Update: 10/19 8PM PST V.65 has larger scale on graph, added Temp and Co2 legends, some rearrangements. – Anthony
UPDATE 10/24/09: An iPhone version is in the works, with more features.Screencap below:
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Neat, Anthony! Is there a way to explain the purple line in a simple way?
REPLY: Mauna Loa CO2 in ppm since 1979 to match the UAH record. -A
Per Ron’s query, suggest using the same color for the line and CO2 ppm and text. They appear different to me.
Hmmmm they look like the same color to me…
Another suggestion is to put the label and color number closest to the line on the right.
e.g CO2 # on top right closest to the purple at the top right
Temperature anomaly # at the bottom right as closer to the temperature line.
Currently spotless days in this sunspot minimum would be an impressive number as it is breaking records – though sunspots is the useful more long lived parameter.
It might be interesting to experiment with red above the temperature line and blue below as hotter/cooler.
I have no website or blog. Anyway to get it on my google homepage as one of their wigets?
Suggest wrapping “Anomaly” onto the second line and overwrite the graph (its blank there).
That would give a simpler main line comparable to the CO2 line.
Suggest adding the leading “0″ before the decimal point. The dot easily gets lost to where it looks like 42 C rather than 0.42 C.
On difference between Mike and my perceptions, suggest running the differences by a color blindness / communications checker so that most people can see the difference.
Possibly add right/left arrows to the line, though I would hope most would know CO2 is steadily increasing.
kewl.
They are different, per color picker from colorzilla
The text “388 ppm is color triplet 223:68:156
The CO2 trace on the graph is color triplet 214:7:223
I am red/green color blind and they appear very different to me.
Larry
I made some changes and updated the version number to Alpha 0.6
Comments welcome
Anthony
Right now, the most fascinating thing to me is the way Dr. Spencer’s SST chart is leading the UAH Atmospheric chart around by the nose. I don’t know if it’d be possible, but it would make a great “overlay.”
Anthony,
Again thanks,
I have been looking for a site that consolidates important data and this latest is just great.
As an inbred moron, I’m not sure I did this right. I have it in the sidebar, but the link is back to this page. Do I win a Hansen award?
REPLY: That’s what is supposed to happen for now, later this page will contain more detailed info on climate…but this is all in development now. You did it right. -A
Excellent idea and well done. This is a visually appealing widget. Thanks for the effort!
Great Idea Anthony, great Widget.
For the future the following suggestion, please add:
1. sea level graph
2. Arctic and Antarctic Ice extend (or global ice extend to keep it simple)
3. Tropical Storm Activity
Any idea how to get this into Dashboard on OS X?
/Mr Lynn
REPLY: Does it have a feature to make a link to a web page? if so use that
A
You might want to add current IPCC projections as a baseline for the data – projected vs actual.
Would it be too wicked to show the range of IPCC temperature projections on the same graph, i.e. fantasy vs reality. Or just too impractical?
Solar Wind speed would be nice ?
Maybe something on Artic and Antarctic sea ice anomoly ?
Excellent little widget !!
Installed!
Many thanks for a cool widget.
Jonathan
Agree with GGM that solar windspeed would be a good addition, seems like there is room for more solar data and reduce the sunspot and flux info to the same font size as co2 and air temp.
Like it! Thanks Anthony.
Dear Anthony, very nice, added to http://motls.blogspot.com/
What is the normal period/dataset for the anomaly presented in this widget?
Could you separate the two lines vertically more to make sure a casual glance doesn’t misinterpret co2 as the temperature slope?
Hi
Any chance for a PHP version?
Added to my solar science blog even though its in hiatus as I don’t have enough time to update it :-(
Great Idea, Anthony…….I use Google gadgets on my sidebar and and its addition there would be useful. It would also create awareness for the general user.
Have been reading wuwt for nearly a year now since I found it on andrew bolt’s blog here in Australia
Like your widget and have added it to my web page
keep up the great work
Could full image be a little bigger?
I think that time bars should show the number of the year, if not all at least every two of them.
Below the text line of number of sunspots, could you add the date?
The purple line can be confused for a a trend line for temperature. It confused me. I’m confused.
And why not also SST and OHC?
Annual Sea temperatures around the British Isles?
I’ve been looking for this on the web and keep running into stuff with a AGW agenda and not giving the facts, just interpretations.
I’m told October is the warmest but cant find information to back this statement up.
Any ideas would be welcome
I am trying to duplicate this graph with this web site tools:http://www.woodfortrees.org
Anyone succeeded to do it?
I want to add it to my blog http://simonfiliatrault.blogspot.com/ but would like to tell people how to duplicate the result from raw data.
Thanks
Would like to see the baseline being used for the anomoly so that new viewers understand it is not based on the entire climate history of the planet.
Nice! Thanks!
I hope somebody can make this into an Apple OS X widget.
A suggestion for an addition, but it would make your widget even more political.
Countdown timers to the END OF THE WORLD as per various “noted persons”.
Gordon Brown, PM Great Britain, says we have 50 days.
In January 2006, Rush Limbaugh started a ten year countdown clock for Al Gore. On his clock, we have 6 years, 3 months.
If you have an interest in putting music to the item, I suggest
http://www.amazon.com/1000-Mass-End-Time-4/dp/B00004UFGW/ref=sr_1_7/176-6755399-4876919?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1255958619&sr=1-7
It is a mass written for the “End of Time” i.e. the end of the world. In Anno Domini 1000 . All the “learned people” have been getting it wrong for over a thousand years.
Regards,
Steamboat Jack
If you want to add the image to Mac OS X Dashboard, open the link in Safari:
http://cache4.intelliweather.net/wcw/world_climate_widget_sidebar.gif
Select “Open in Dashboard” under the file menu.
Click on the image.
Click the “Add” button.
I asked, “Any idea how to get this into Dashboard on OS X?”
Anthony replied: “Does it have a feature to make a link to a web page? if so use that.”
Dashboard is apparently an application that downloads widgets from Apple’s own site, here: http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/?r=dbw
To add a widget, one must be an Apple Developer: “Apple Developer Connection (ADC) members are eligible to submit products for possible listing on the Mac OS X Downloads website.” See this page:
http://tinyurl.com/3×4nht
Anyone here competent to do this?
/Mr Lynn
I’m a registered (and experienced – 20+ years) iPhone and Mac developer – would love to help you produce an iPhone app – usually do corporate stuff, so this would be terrific fun.
Dashboard is apparently an application that downloads widgets from Apple’s own site, here: http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/?r=dbw
No… Dashboard has been built into the Finder starting with v10.5 (Tiger).
It should activate when you hit “F12″ on your keyboard.
Ack… Let me clarify my last statement, because what I meant to say and what I did say are two completely different things. I was trying to be brief and to finish the posting before heading out on an errand and what I said came out wrong.
Yes, Dashboard can download “widgets” from Apple’s site. Those widgets can do a lot of things, but the functionality you are looking for is built into Dashboard … you don’t need to download anything.
Just follow the steps I laid out earlier and a “web clip” of the “World Climate Widget” will appear on your “Dashboard”, which is toggled by hitting F12 (on some laptops, I think it might be a lower numbered Fn-key).
Works well in my blog here: http://agbjarn.blog.is
I had to scale it down a bit so it is now 140 pixels wide and 188 pixels high. A bit smaller, but looks good.
Thanks.
Agust
I am surprised that nobody so far has commented on the relative scaling of the axes for CO2 and temperature. The CO2 line is drawn such that temperatures would have to rise more than 0.5 C / decade in order to have the same slope as it. This rise is much higher than the rise that the IPCC expects. (0.15 to 0.2 C / decade would be more appropriate but would have not have had the visual effect that you presumably desired.)
If you use the right scaling factor , there is a good match between UAH and CO2 at about 100ppm/Degree C
I tried this on Woodfor trees:-
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/esrl-co2/from:1979/scale:0.0064/offset:-2.2/plot/uah/from:1979
Sorry 200ppm/Degree C
Why not call it the WUWT-World Climate? We know it is a Widget, no need to spell it out!
If you could fit global sea level and global; ocean heat content, that would complete the picture.
A.
What is the baseline for the temperature anomoly? 0.42 deg above what?
David.
Also using Hadcrut over the full CO2 range
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3gl/from:1940/to:2009/plot/esrl-co2/from:1940/to:2009/scale:0.0057/offset:-1.9
According to the Met Office this 200ppm/Degree C slope is about to change to 20ppm/Degree C over the next 40 years. A whole order of magnitude faster. I think not?
This is a great idea Anthony.
Please look into making it available as a mobile app for iphone, and a google gadget
@John Edmondson I got close also with this one on woodfortrees.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/esrl-co2/from:1979/normalise/plot/uah/from:1979
Ok – how about a Vista “Gadget” for MS desktop? Doable? I know the weather gadget obviously calls for data. My opinion of the widget is A++ for elegance and simplicity.
Thanks for “the steps I laid out earlier.” I missed them before, so let me quote, for others (like Mark, above, in case he didn’t see it):
BTW, although Dashboard is integrated with the Finder, it is a separate application (look in Applications). What I didn’t know was that you could add widgets to Dashboard directly from websites (via Safari), rather than just from Apple’s Dashboard page. That makes it much cooler. Thanks for the tip!
Maybe Anthony could add that instruction to the top of this thread for other Mac users like me, who may not have ever looked farther down the Safari File menu than ‘New Tab’.
/Mr Lynn
A great widget Anthony! I have successfully installed it on my blog. I assume that if the temp anomaly drops to, say 0.41, the little arrow will point down?
“Mark N (03:17:57) :
Annual Sea temperatures around the British Isles?
I’ve been looking for this on the web and keep running into stuff with a AGW agenda and not giving the facts, just interpretations.
I’m told October is the warmest but cant find information to back this statement up.
Any ideas would be welcome”
CEFAS
http://www.cefas.co.uk/data.aspx
cheers David
@ Simon Filiatrault (12:57:25) :
Yes , Wood for trees is a very good source. I think 1C = 175+/- 25 ppm CO2 , so roughly 0.01C/year = No Panic
Shouldn’t the CO2 begin at the same baseline as the temp anomaly?
As a non “science” guy this chart appears to support AGW… At any moment, I’d expect to see the temp to shoot up. Since weather isn’t climate – or so someone keeps telling me.
Since the temp number is an anomaly from a 30-year average, it would be logical that 1979 CO2 level would be at the 0 temp baseline in year 1979 since both temp and CO2 level would be starting from the same point in time.
Starting it below the baseline creates a visual hook of a connection.
Since I only have dial-up Internet access, a number of years ago – for my homepage I created an htm page on my PC including many links I use often and a nice background image. Gives me a very quick access to home page . [example path=]
Long story short:
I pasted the link to your new World Climate widget into my home page; works great and livens up the background image too.
At some time in the future wouldn’t it be better to have the widget link point to WUWT’s home page [where the widget also appears, of course]
Since no one else has access to my home page, would your condition #1 be violated if I pointed your widget to your home page? May I have that permission?
John Edmundson:
I would say your scaling of the CO2 curve is clearly too low and this one, with almost double the slope for CO2 fits better: http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3gl/from:1940/to:2009/plot/esrl-co2/from:1940/to:2009/scale:0.011/offset:-3.7
I don’t think the Met Office is saying that. That would correspond to a transient climate response of over 13 C per CO2 doubling. The actual best estimate for the transient climate response is somewhere around or just over 2 C per CO2 doubling (i.e., somewhat less than the best estimate of 3 C per CO2 doubling for the equilibrium climate sensitivity).
Thanks for providing that widget Anthony. I have now put it on my blog too. What would be the chances of getting the code for the AMSR-E Sea Ice widgetand the DMI Arctic temperature widget also? As I would love to put those in my side bar too.
Anthony, I have a Mac with Dashboard. How can I get this widget for my Dashboard? I’m a little confused as to how to download. It looks pretty cool, too.
REPLY: read comments above. Solution posted for OSX – A
The sunspot and flux current values are chalk and cheese with the historic record chart.
Wouldn’t it be better as two separate panels within the same widget, one showing current values and the other showing the historic time sequences?
Sea temperature and global sea ice are obvious additions.
I love it.
How about a picture of Al Gore beating a polar bear with a hockey stick?
Eleven sunspots today?
And what’s that number, ‘1028′, with the vertical line into the Sun mean?
/Mr Lynn
Michael McCullough (16:39:04) :
This is close…
http://hisvorpal.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/polar_bear_hockey.jpg
Yeah is there a sunspot? Soho image looks fairly uniform to me.
OK, really do like this ….
want to have it be my desktop ( centered ) in windows XP but XP is an “appliance” for me so is there any hope and if so, how to ???
Browser is Firefox … if that helps, can add the google desktop bar, if that helps …
BBC suggest we take a slant one way or another. ,
Hi Anthony – any way to get this into Google Gadgets? Would love to see this on our windows desktops.
Thanks!
The widget reads: sunspot number = 0, yet it is actually around 30. What is up with that?
REPLY: We are coding the automation still, note that it is in early Alpha. But push a manual fix in – Thanks for the heads up on the error -A
UPDATE: the coding is doing exactly what it is supposed to. The file http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/DSD.txt shows zero for SSN. -A
Perhaps make the sunspot reference number (on the orb itself) black or some other dark colour – not easily readible in white at widget size.
Looking at that 1979-2009 record, I keep asking myself, “What’s the Standard Deviation” of the temperature numbers?
I suspect it might be on the order of 0.2 or 0.3 C. In which case any claim of a “trend” is statistically meaningless!
Thanks, Anthony, for your help on Mac OSX. Now, is there a version of this for PalmPre? Sorry I have so many questions these days.
See: Maybe the sun really means business this time
Will this widget be made available for standard PC users (XP , XP64)?
Thanks
Great widget. Love it!
I see requests for this and that to be added, most would be interesting… but how about just a simple temperature trend line, broken into 5 or 10 year segments (in darker blue)? it would make a great visual comparison to the CO2 (@ Mona Loa) line….
Hmmm, wish we had a global average of PPM of CO2 to show, like the global temp line… Yes, i know I’m paranoid for not trusting the measurement of a supposedly “well mixed” gas, so near AND up wind from an ACTIVE volcano.
Anthony, can I suggest that when the reader clicks on “click here for more information”, that you should provide as part of that information, definitions of sunspot # and some commentary on solar flux. I know how the sunspot number is calculated but many visitors to blogs that host the widget will not. I have no idea what the importance of solar flux is. Some commentary would be nice such as giving the typical minimum and maximum values (is 71 high or low? what is the range from peak year to quiet year? etc.)
REPLY: absolutely, that’s in the works, bear in mind this is early Alpha right now. – Anthony
Could somebody tell me what I have to do to publish the widget in my blog (blogspot), please?
love the widget!
a temperature trendline would be very helpful.
can’t wait for the iphone application so i can use it while discussing the subject with my warmist friends.
Anthony, you may want to consider pulling the Solar Flux and Sunspot numbers from http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/latest/SGAS.txt rather than http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/DSD.txt. DSD is data one day old – SGAS is relatively current. Just a suggestion. By the way I added your widget on the sidebar of my solar data page as an alternative to what I produce. I really like it!
73 de Paul N0NBH
REPLY: Thank you, that is high praise. Most appreciated. – Anthony
Anthony,
I live in Central England and decided to ignore all the verbiage around global warming/cooling and just look for data. I went to the British Met Office website and, after a bit of rummaging, found
http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcet/cetml1659.dat
This lists the Monthly Mean Central England Temperatures in Degrees C from 1659 to date
This can also be found on
http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcet/data/monthly_
format.html
As well as data for each month, these sites also provide the annual temperature for each year.
In 1659 the temperature for the year was 8.83 C and in 2008 was 9.96 C.
In 1779 the temperature for the year is shown as 10.40 C, and if the folks of that time could cope with that, then I reckon that we who are living in Central England now can probably manage also.
For the less numerate, this data can be seen in graphic form on
http://www.climate4you.com/images/CentralEngland
TempSince1659%201100pixel.gif
This shows three graphs for the period 1659 to date , being Annual (J-D), Winter (DJF) and Summer (JJA)
So, as far as I’m concerned, there’s nothing to worry about.
Finally, thank you for your site – a beacon of sense in a mad world.
Any ETA for the iPhone version?
And do you think after their withdrawal from the USCoC over Global Warming, that they will let you put it on the App Store? Ha!
Al Gore is on the board there you know…
really love this widget., but is’t updates everyday..
The hypothesis below may be of interest:
Hypothesis: The opening 11,000 years ago of the Bering Strait not only increased temperatures but also introduced an extra stabilising factor into global temperatures. Whereas prior to this the Arctic ocean had acted with destabilising feedback from the sea ice and its albedo, since then there has been some form of stabilising feedback – perhaps one in which the strength of the MOC has been inversely proportional to global temperature or alternatively/additionally one in which increases in global temperature increase the amount of Southern Ocean water entering the South Atlantic.
Ref Sandal & Nof 2008 * :
Journal of physical oceanography
2008, vol. 38, no9, pp. 1979-1991 [13 page(s) (article)] (3/4 p.
Anthony: your widget appears to have been stuck on the Nov. 13 Data for a few days. For example, yesterday’s sunspot count was 30 but the widget read 0; the flux number was 77 but the widget read 74.