Old Rocks
Diamond Member
Here's the latest satellite data from Ditto-Dopers Christy and Spencer and even THEY admit this decade has been WARMING:
Information from Global Hydrology and Climate Center, University of Alabama - Huntsville, USA The data from which the graphs are derived can be downloaded here.
Temperature Variation From Average:
Lower Troposphere:
Global:
June 2009: +0.01 °C
Northern Hemisphere: +0.04 °C
Southern Hemisphere: -0.02 °C
Peak recorded anomaly:
February, 1998: +0.76 °C
Current relative to peak recorded: -0.75 °CDECADAL TREND:
Global: +0.12 °C
Northern Hemisphere: +0.19 °C
Southern Hemisphere: +0.06 °C
Last update: July 7, 2009
Woopsie! Forgot to highlight this in the original response, but I suppose this does desrve its own response:
+.76 down to -.75 seems to be about a point and a half reduction.
By the by, our high in Indy yesterday was about 67 degrees compared to an average high of about 84.
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And here in Portland, Oregon, our temps have been running from 85 to 95 for the last five days.
The last 13 years have seen 11 of the warmest years on record. But, using 1998 as a base, you claim cooling. It appears that we are going into an El Nino. Now if the El Nino produces record temperatures, exceeding 1998 and 2005, your whole hypothesis will be falsified. For if a moderate El Nino produces record temperatures during a period of low solar activity, there is nothing else to attribute the increase to but GHGs. I am quite confident that is what is going to happen.
I am also quite confident that you will find some other reason why it just isn't so. This denial of reality is quite amazing. And to see the denial politisized, to the point of the two parties in this nation coming down polar opposite on the subject is just amazing. Especially since the party that got handed their asses in the last election reached that situation by denial of reality in other spheres.