UPDATE – see new graph of global ∆T for the past year below. There has been a global drop in temperature of 0.63 degrees Centigrade in the past 12 months.
Of course we already have had a heads up from all the wire reports around the world talking about the significant winter weather events that have occurred worldwide in the last month, but until now, there hasn’t been a measure of how the planet was doing for the winter of 2007/2008.
Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa just posted the latest MSU (Microwave Sounder Unit) data.
January posted a -.08°C near global anomaly between -70S and 82.5N latitude (the viewshed of the satellite sounder). That makes it the coldest month since January 2000, and the 2nd coldest January for the planet in 15 years. Both northern and southern hemispheres posted negative anomalies of -.120°C and -.038°C respectively, happening for the first time since January 2000.
The United States posted a -.557°C anomaly for January 2008 and a -0.196°C anomaly for December 2007.
Here is the raw anomaly data for January 2008
| Year | Month | -70.0/ 82.5 | -20.0/ 20.0 | 20.0/ 82.5 | -70.0/ -20.0 | 60.0/ 82.5 | -70.0/ -60.0 | CONUS | 0.0/ 82.5 | -70.0/ 0.0 |
| 2008 | 1 | -0.080 | -0.188 | -0.063 | 0.025 | 0.288 | -0.833 | -0.557 | -0.120 | -0.038 |
Which can be viewed in its entirety here (.txt data, RSS Data Version 3.1)
Here is my plot of the raw, unedited Global anomaly data (-70S to 82.5N) supplied by RSS per month. Note that the anomaly trend between late 2007 and early 2008 is quite steep and that the period leading up to 2008 is relatively flat.
click for a larger image Note: RSS Data Version 3.1
UPDATE:
I decided to plot a magnified graph to show the global change in temperature over the last year from January 2007 to January 2008, the ∆T of -0.629°C is quite significant for a 12 month period, rivaled in the last 10 years only by the 1998 El Nino warming peak.
Click for a larger image Note: RSS Data Version 3.1
Probable cause– [Una] Niña muy grande. It looks like we may have a PDO shift as well. But as some say, trying to correlate such things is a “fools errand”. But, judge for yourself.
click for a larger image
We live in interesting times.
(h/t MattN)
In Australia the south and east has been unusually wet this summer, while the north and west has been unusually dry. As most people live in the south and east, the media reports it as a wet summer, but overall its probably been drier than normal. See Rainfall anomaly map.
http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/silo/rain_maps.cgi?map=contours&variable=anomaly&area=aus&period=cmonth®ion=aus&time=latest
January 2008 was the warmest January on record. This probably reflects the unusually dry north. Wet days are much cooler than dry sunny days in the Australian summer.
Cyclone activity has been very low. This year could well be a record low. Still a fews weeks to go in the season.
Thank you for this post. It has been educational to read the discussion as well. I still think that you are missing the most important effect of all: The Nobel Reversal. This is the almost immediate phenomenon that follows awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize: total and abject reversal. Notables such as Kissinger, Arafat, Carter and Anan had their “causes” completely demolished shortly after their Nobels were awarded for their efforts. Winners for 2007: Al Gore and the IPCC. Will history repeat?
/severe sarcasm/
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Al Gore was right! See what all the attention to global warming has done. We’ve managed to cut the temp. by this much in such a short time. Now we have to decide what the appropriate world temperature is so if it gets too cold, we can warm things up. Let’s turn the project over to the UN.
MODERATOR REPLY: “We’ve managed to cut the temp. by this much in such a short time.” I’d point out that “We” haven’t done anything. The driver of the cooling are natural processes.
The “La Nina” continues to strengthen. I think it is becoming safe to say, this is more than a La Nina. Longer period oscillations are also exerting cooling, superimposed on La Nina. As noted on the newer thread, how low will we go?
For this reason, combined with macro economic and geopolitical ones, for the remainder of this calendar year I shall be topping off my preps. YMMV.
This information needs to be sent to the editorial staff of the New York Times and Washington Post to educate them in the areas of science and analytical thinking.
Anomalous cooling=Global Warming.
(Hypothesized proof.)
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Does this mean AL GORE put his foot in his mouth once again ?
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NOAA Satelite And Information service http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SNOW/
Feb, 13, 2008 arctic ice. http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SNOW/DATA/cursnow_alaska.gif
Feb, 13, 2007 arctic ice http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SNOW/DATA/cursnow_alaska.gif
Arctic ice growth http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070404162259.htm
While this storys Headline is a shocker. If you read the amount of ice growth in 2007 was 100,000 more last year than 2006
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Global warming stopped in 2008? Someone used the exact same `method’ — drawing a straight line through 2 points and calling it a `trend’ — and `showed’ that global warming stopped in 1998! I guess that didn’t happen after all, otherwise our denialist (um, `skeptic’) brethren wouldn’t have to adjust the `end date’.
Which, of course, goes to show just how totally, absolutitiously reliable this particular `method’ is.
REPLY: FYI The website you reference with your post URL http://globaldumbing.tk/ won’t load.
More proof our earth goes through cycles. You morons spending billions of dollars on something that doesn’t exist. I say we start studying global cooling. If you belive in global warming you can go stand outside for 1 hour butt naked in antartica.