By WUWT regular “Just The Facts”
Our newest addition is the WUWT Global Temperature Page, which includes graphs, graphics and animations on Global Atmospheric, Surface and Ocean Temperatures, as well as a summary of Northern Hemisphere Temperatures at the end.
Also, in response to various requests for tutorials, I’ve been compiling a list of all of the potential variables in Earth’s Climate System in this post Earth’s Climate System Is Ridiculously Complex – With Draft Link Tutorial and will add it as a WUWT Reference Pagesonce it is more complete. I am crowdsourcing this list, so if you have any additions, corrections, recommendations, etc. please leave them in comments on that thread.
I have also made a couple changes to Sea Ice Page, adding titles to several of the graphics and testing a new link anchoring function, i.e. you’ll note pink tags like “Graphic 1” next to the first 7 titles. The goal of anchoring function would be to allow WUWT users to link directly to any graph on any of the WUWT Reference Pages, but I wanted to test it out before rolling it out further. What do you think about this functionality? Would anyone actually use it?
Additionally, Dr. Roy Spencer’s UAH Lower Atmosphere Temperature Anomaly Chart found at the top of this post and in the Global Temperature page, has also been added to WUWT’s Atmosphere Page and Global Climate History Page. If you really like to keep an eye on Atmospheric Temperatures it is recommended that you visit the University of Alabama at Huntsville’s Discover AMSU Temperature Page, which offers daily atmospheric temperatures from a range of heights based upon the Aqua Satellite.
If you have not had the opportunity to review the other WUWT Reference Pagesit is highly recommended:
- Atmosphere Page
- Atmospheric Oscillation
- ENSO (El Nino/La Nina Southern Oscillation) Page
- Geomagnetism Page
- Global Climate History
- Global Temperature
- Ocean Page
- Ocean Oscillation
- Sea Ice Page
- Solar Page
- US Climatic History Reference Page
- US Weather History
Please note that WUWT cannot vouch for the accuracy of the data within the reference pages, as WUWT is simply an aggregator. All of the data is linked from third party sources. If you doubt the accuracy of any of the graphs on the WUWT Reference Pages, please note it in comments and try to leverage the extensive Source Guides at the bottom of the Reference Pages to identify the associated source data.
If you have have any suggested additions or improvements to any of the WUWT Reference Pages, please let us know in comments below.
could we have a temperature graph showing a 60 or 65 year running average? It might be interesting to see how this looks compared to the standard 30 year climate running average, to see if there is possibly a cyclical component in temperature that is affecting the average.
GISS global temp anomaly for June is 50. The first half of the year’s average is about 48, which is below average for the last decade.
Nothing more than fakery. It is impossible to measure Earth temperature.
Alex says: “Nothing more than fakery. It is impossible to measure Earth temperature.”
Alex, I doubt that ‘fakery’ is even close to the correct word. I prefer ‘moot’ in this context. Moot! Moot! Moot! I think the closest thing to a relevant global temperature is an oceanic composite temperature. Not unproblematic, but still 100 times more meaningful than average atmospheric temperature.
@roger Knights
“GISS global temp anomaly for June is 50. The first half of the year’s average is about 48, which is below average for the last decade.”
Is this La Nina? No! It MUST be Global Cooling!
at last….temp page the crucial one
Suw you can take the earth’s temperature … I believe the proper place to insert the thermometer is approximately near Dallas, TX. 🙂
aside from whether or not AGW ever happens does anyone else notice the silliness of the media whenever it hits 100 degrees anywhere? they act like its some kind of an emergency: “stay indoors or if you must venture outside(where there is, god forbid, NO AC!!) remember to drink to plenty of fluids in order to keep hydrated”….
[Snip. Discussions of HAARP are off-limits on WUWT. Please see the site Policy under “About” on the mast head menu. ~dbs, mod.]
[Snip. There are plenty of blogs where HAARP is discussed. This is not one of them. Please read the site Policy. ~dbs, mod.]
I’m sorry to sound dumb but where is the link to all the WUWT Reference Pages, please?
O.K. I’ve found it. It’s across the top and I was searching down the sidebar. Sorry!
Global cooling confirmed:
“Earth may have formed more than 4.5 billion years ago, but it’s still cooling. A new study reveals that only about half of our planet’s internal heat stems from natural radioactivity. The rest is primordial heat left over from when Earth first coalesced from a hot ball of gas, dust, and other material.”
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/07/earth-still-retains-much-of-its-.html?ref=hp
I have to agree with Jorge. Global Temperature or any of its derivatives is pretty meaningless.
Before I forget ….
ENSO (El Nino/La Nina Southern Oscillation) Page
has a section on typing Niño. I suggest you include the HTML “character entity” form too, in fact, I’d list it first as anyone on any OS can use it.
If you type Niño (I hope I have that looking right, you’ll get Niño.
See the bottom of my Guide to WUWT for more details and more characters. Like the degree sign, which I use a lot.
Also, I’ve added a new hack, err, feature for all us folks who think the number of pages served is important or just interesting – both the top level page and the monthly pages (starting part way into July) now include the total number of page views.
Howard T. Lewis III says:
July 17, 2011 at 2:40 pm
dbs snipped and replaced: [Snip. Discussions of HAARP are off-limits on WUWT.]
I cornered Anthony at the ICCC to talk to him about some posts I wanted to do. One is to create a new page hanging off of my Guide to WUWT page that lists all the banned topics with an explanation why, and links to pages that provide information for both sides. HAARP or Chemtrails will be first. Probably Chemtrails, those make me more apoplectic due to the lack of citizen science.
Anthony gave me permission to write a post here to introduce the page and have a snip free discussion about all the banned topics. (It was unstated, but if things get out of control, discussion will come to a screeching halt, I’m sure.)
It will be a while before I get that page and post ready, people who can find my contact info can send me their favorite links. Don’t post them here, the moderators will snip them and think black thoughts about me.
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Before that will be an update on Rossi’s Energy Catalyzer. The mainstream media is still nearly completely clueless, a huge number of Google links are to June and July pages, so in the blogosphere things are taking off exponentially (or maybe hyperbolically). There’s a lot to update, and a lot to say. Send me your favorite links, don’t post them here….
Ric Werme says: July 17, 2011 at 4:58 pm
ENSO (El Nino/La Nina Southern Oscillation) Page
has a section on typing Niño. I suggest you include the HTML “character entity” form too, in fact, I’d list it first as anyone on any OS can use it.
If you type Niño (I hope I have that looking right, you’ll get Niño.
Added at the top of the list, Thank you.
Seem to be encountering a glitch…. the page load up is stuck on ” Transferring data from s36.sitemeter.com…’
???????
Reply I’ve checked from a couple computers and browsers and can’t recreate the issue. Sitemeter is a traffic tracking application used on WUWT; http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s36wattsup
but the link for the Global Temperature Page is the same as on every other page on WUWT. And the Global Temperature Page should be the same size as the other Reference Pages. Are you still having the problem? Is anyone else experiencing download issues/slow loading of the Global Temperature Page? JTF
Seriously, a “global temperature” is completely and absolutely meaningless. All it can possibly tell us is the average temperature AT THE MEASURING POINTS. Anyone who has even so much as a thermometer in their car knows how variable temperature can be in even small areas. The very fact that an “average” has such dramatic spikes should tell you this, unless you believe the overall energy balance of the planet is so rapidly variable.
Unless you actually enjoy the concept of chasing rainbows, don’t bother trying to correlate today with 60 or 100 years ago. Temperatures are measured differently, and often at airports or similarly non-representative locations, not to mention the massive difference in number of measuring stations just in the last 20 years.
I’m somewhat amused, and often amazed, at the credence given to these numbers. Any credibility, other than as a broad index, is misplaced. And I say this whether the month is higher or lower. The numbers are essentially random and should be recognized as such.
As a follow up to that post: the 1998 El Niño event PROVES this. THe planet did NOT suddenly get dramatically warmer in 1998, just the areas where we happen to have the most temperature measurements. Both El Niño and La Niña involve moving heat around, not creating or removing it.
Ric Werme says:
July 17, 2011 at 4:58 pm
“Before I forget ….
See the bottom of my Guide to WUWT for more details and more characters. Like the degree sign, which I use a lot.”
Most appreciated – didn’t know how to conjure them up!
Title correction: “introducting” should be “introducing”… Keep up the good work!44
Reply Corrected, Thx JTF
@ur momisugly Just the facts: I see there is already a graph relating lower stratospheric to tropospheric temperatures and showing a zero trend. But hidden behind this zero trend, a very interesting development is going on. Figure 10 of the late Noor van Andel’s draft on “CO2 and climate change” shows each of these temperatures separately, with the tropospheric temperatures becoming warmer all the while the lower stratosphere is getting colder in almost equal proportions. Because it is the temperature difference between these two which provides the energy for thunderstorms, it would be very interesting to relate and display this difference along with the “Accumulated Cyclone Energy” diagram created by Ryan N. Maue.
See here: http://climategate.nl/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/CO2_and_climate_v7.pdf. Van Andel linked the metoffice page at http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadat/images.html as the original source. However, be aware that “the crown” is claimed to hold a copyright on these diagrams (and data?).
Anthony, after all your work on surface stations and the problems with scientific accuracy and scientific data in concocting such a fantasy, why would you post such a page without some intro page summarizing all the qualifiers?
REPLY: Because I didn’t do the page, see the header of the story. – Anthony
REPLY: Valid point. I’ve added a version of the disclaimer included in this post, “Please note that WUWT cannot vouch for the accuracy of the data within this page, as all of the data is linked from third party sources and WUWT is simply an aggregator.” to the top of the Global Temperature Page, and will add it to the other Reference Pages when I have a chance. Beyond that, there needs to be a degree of skepticism applied to every data source, but we do not want to get involved in qualifying each of the dozens of data sources on the Reference Pages. If a graphic has been questionably adjusted and this has been validated, we will add a tag, e.g. for the University of Colorado “Global Mean Sea Level Change Graph” I previously added with a “Correction” of 0.3 mm/year added May, 5th 2011, due to a “Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA)”. If you think there should be similar tags added to any of the other the graphics, please provide your suggestions below. If any of data sources or individual graphics are demonstrated to be erroneous, we will remove them. – JTF
Does anyone know why RSS TLS (lower stratosphere temperature) is so weird? It stays constant until el-chicon, then steps down, then stays constant until pinatubo, then steps down again, and again stays constant ever after. What is up with that?