Of the 20 warmest years in the last 150, the oldest on the lists is 1987. And for the top ten, only one is not within the last 12 years, that being 1998. This year, in spite of being a double La Nina year, ranks between 9th and 11th on the list.
Anyone care to guess where the next El Nino year is going to put us. And we, the whole world, pumped out a record amount of GHGs this year.
Despite warm autumn, 2011 temperatures fail to reach record highs | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Top 20 hottest years on record
Global mean temperature anomalies for the three main datasets (Nasa, Noaa, Met Office)
HadCRUT3 NOAA NCDC NASA GISS
1 1998 0.52 2010 0.52 2010 0.56
2 2010 0.5 2005 0.52 2005 0.55
3 2005 0.47 1998 0.5 2007 0.51
4 2003 0.46 2003 0.49 2009 0.5
5 2002 0.46 2002 0.48 2002 0.49
6 2009 0.44 2006 0.46 1998 0.49
7 2004 0.43 2009 0.46 2006 0.48
8 2006 0.43 2007 0.45 2003 0.48
9 2007 0.4 2004 0.45 2011 0.45
10 2001 0.4 2001 0.42 2004 0.41
11 2011 0.36 2011 0.41 2001 0.4
12 1997 0.36 2008 0.38 2008 0.37
13 2008 0.31 1997 0.38 1997 0.32
14 1995 0.28 1999 0.32 1995 0.3
15 1999 0.26 1995 0.31 1990 0.29
16 1990 0.25 2000 0.29 1991 0.28
17 2000 0.24 1990 0.29 2000 0.26
18 1991 0.2 1991 0.24 1999 0.25
19 1983 0.19 1988 0.2 1988 0.24
20 1987 0.17 1987 0.2 1996 0.22
So, to re-cap, we are at the all time recorded instrumental high of CO2 right now. Years warmer than 2011 during the last ten years are have been:
Coolest: 2011
Warmer than 2011:
2010
2009
2007
2006
2005
2003
2002
2001
So of the ten years to date, this year is the coolest except for one. Again this is happening as the thing you claim to be the prime driver of climate change is at the all time high.
What about the present cooling represents warming to you?
this shows a steady upwards adjustment to 2000. I'll try to find a more up-to-date one because there was a large upwards adjustment after 2007.
I'm not saying that all the adjustments are bogus but it seems pretty convenient that they always seem to be in the same direction. up.
when a large fraction of the trend you are finding is arbitrarily added adjustments then I am somewhat wary of the results. hey Old Rocks- would the last decade still be filling the Top Ten List if you knocked off 0.2-0.5C from the anomaly?