UAH July global temperature – essentially unchanged from June

Compared to seasonal norms, the coldest place in Earth’s atmosphere in July was over western Russia near the town of Verkhoturye (one of the oldest Russian towns east of the Urals), where Antarctic winter temperatures were as much as 3.77 C (about 6.79 degrees Fahrenheit) colder than seasonal norms.
Wait a second. Western Russia in an Antarctic winter?

Climate change deniers risk being relegated to the ash heap of history. Yet despite the scientific consensus (and, yes, there is consensus), there are those that insist on denying that anthropogenic (i.e. human caused) climate change is real and has arrived.
We know that humans are changing a climate that has been stable for about 10,000 years, and that they are doing this through the unbridled use of fossil fuels (indeed half of all fossil fuels consumed since the start of the Industrial Revolution have been used in the last 30 years).
From: Glenn McGillivray is Managing Director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction. I guess that makes him a climate expert.
http://www.insblogs.com/catastrophe/climate-change-deniers-risk-relegated-ash-heap-history/1616

Katherine says:
August 5, 2014 at 10:55 pm

Compared to seasonal norms, the coldest place in Earth’s atmosphere in July was over western Russia near the town of Verkhoturye (one of the oldest Russian towns east of the Urals), where Antarctic winter temperatures were as much as 3.77 C (about 6.79 degrees Fahrenheit) colder than seasonal norms.
Wait a second. Western Russia in an Antarctic winter?

But CAGW can do anything! Even move entire continents!

Thanks for the regular updates.
However, must ask again – what caused the huge and unprecedented (in the satellite era data) spike in 1998. I don’t believe even a super El Niño contains sufficient energy to produce such a large and rapid global temperature change.
Your first graph shows a 0.8C spike from early 97 to early 98 and a similar 0.8C decline by early 99. This spike is double the magnitude and less than half the period of any other rapid event on that graph. I didn’t do the math but we’re talking about a massive influx of energy into out atmosphere and I seriously doubt it came from the Pacific Ocean or our sun. And the result is a 0.4C step change in mean temps from the trend prior to 98 (basically flat) to after the 98 spike (again, basically flat trend line).
I feel strongly this is a mystery that needs to be addressed and solved. And it obviously has nothing to do with atmospheric CO2 concentrations!
Bill

From: Glenn McGillivray is Managing Director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction. I guess that makes him a climate expert.

To boost profits in the insurance industry, one merely has to overstate the risks.

Oh good, I was able to decoded this, UAH = University of Alabama at Huntsville.

The map has July in the East coast of Australia as being somewhat above normal. I can tell you from personal experience that the region shown has been ball-tearingly cold compared with recent years, with near record snowfalls and many record or near-record low temps.
Something is screwy.

ES says:
August 6, 2014 at 12:51 am…….
Next time put it in quotes or put the “From” at the top of the quote otherwise we might think it’s from you.

Odd that the monthly figures for 2013 and 2014 included in Dr. Spencer’s post do not consistently match the monthly figures in the “uahncdc lt 5.6.txt (Lower Troposphere)” dataset that he provides a link to. For example, the post shows the February 2014 anomaly at 0.170 but the dataset shows it at 0.18. There are other examples as well.

Edim says:
August 6, 2014 at 6:11 am
I agree, a strong/long La Nina, similar to the 1954-56 one is due. It’s been 60 years too, since that one.
“Due?” Ha! Do you think we pay the slightest attention to your “schedules”, puny humans?
…Yours truly,
La Nina and El Nino

I would post in the Death Valley thread, but too many comments there now.
The National Weather Service reports Reno, NV, only reached a high temperature of 66 degrees on Tuesday 5 August. The previous record for lowest high temperature was 73 set in 1891,
FWIW.

So a few days ago, we had the definitive headline that there has been no warming for 17 years and 10 months. But – as previously discussed – based on the RSS satellite sensing alone:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/08/02/global-temperature-update-still-no-global-warming-for-17-years-10-months/
UAH does not show such a long pause. Its also satellite based sensing. So it looks to me like RSS is favoured by sceptics as it produces the trend they want to see.
Perhaps Lord M could do his RSS analysis on the UAH data ?

ES:
“Climate Change Deniers risk being relegated to the ash heap of history…”
Just posted this over at the linked site:
How can you say with apparent conviction that the climate has been “stable” for 10,000 years (until now, presumably) when there is not a shred of scientific evidence to back that up, and in fact the vast majority of studies (peer reviewed), show just the opposite, including the Holocene Climate Optimum (much warmer than today), followed by cool period, followed by Roman Warming period, followed by Dark Ages cool period, followed by Medieval Warming Period, followed by Little Ice Age, from which we are now essentially recovered. All three previous warming periods were equal to or greater than the current period (look it up), and the Little Ice Age was the source of significant crop failure, starvation, etc., while the Roman Warming Period and the Medieval Warming period were characterized by growth of civilization and population, abundant crops, retreat of glaciers, etc. Look up the studies, and inform yourself. The notion that the climate is stable is just patently false, and if that’s what you base your current alarmism on, then you should educate yourself to the scientific literature.
Additionally, as is typical, you create a “straw case” for so-called “deniers”. Most of us believe that CO2 has some warming effect, and clearly mankind is producing more (but is a very small source compared to others, such as Ocean out-gassing, animal respiration, etc.). And everybody acknowledges that the climate is changing (see above). What we don’t believe is that CO2 doubling raises temperatures anywhere near the rate claimed by some scientists, and think climate sensitivity to CO2 doubling is less than 2C, and maybe less than 1C. We also don’t buy the conjecture by some scientists that increase of CO2-driven temperatures will trigger water vapor runaway warming, which is the only scenario that can make AGW into CAGW.
Finally, most of us are more concerned in the longer-term future about the return (inevitably) of another Ice Age, even a “little” one, which would be far more catastrophic to our civilization than a few degrees of warming.

goldminor – yes I could do it, but am inviting Lord M to do so in the interests of balance as the much quoted RSS pause is clearly different to UAH but both are satellite sensing. And you are wrong about Lord M’s “handiwork” as I posted re his recent analysis of the 5 major datasets taken together, that he had it about right – a pause from 2002, not the mid-1990s.

The value for “tropics” went from -0.1 in Feb to +0.5 in June. Interesting that the entire tropical lower troposphere of planet Earth can increase so quickly. Yet the NH shows little change. The SH jumped 0.3 degrees in May, but was nearly stable before and after that jump.
How does CO2 manage to do that??

About time to start putting together the legal case against M Mann et al for damages in the vicinity of $30billion.