there are big swings every year. I am not sure why people fixate on minimums and maximums at the expense of looking at the overall picture.
GLOBAL albedo % and sea ice cover have more to do with heat retention and reflection than the snow itself. The area affected will have long reaching effects on other global systems as well. The fact that one hemisphere has a low ice volume is important to that hemispheres overall climate but the earth remains in balance despite CO2 levels which are far lower than the global mean over the last 450 million years of approximately 1200ppm. Yet some how our addition of 120ppm (which can not be confirmed as 'only' caused by man) has little or no effect when we look at the empirical evidence. Recent studies show that CO2 may infact be a negative forcing, not a positive one and that is why the alarmists refuse to acknowledge them.
Remember, they're now claiming that 90% of the warming is absorbed by the oceans. There's less accurate reading in the oceans
0.02 deg C..... with error bars at +/-0.2
And if you include equipment used just 10 years ago that number expands to +/-0.5 deg C.
Their warming is fictional and can not be proved with any accuracy nor can it be disproved, Its quite the racketeering game they got going.. Karl Et AL screws with the land temps and this screws with the ocean temps and whala... Hottest year EVA....
Simple question to Karl et al, did you adjust datasets? Then I'll follow up, why?
Yes to question 1.
They wont justify them to answer question 2...
Then we look at a new paper; Cheng et al. (2015)
Global Upper Ocean Heat Content Estimation: Recent Progress and the Remaining Challenges. We find that they almost doubled the rate of sea warming without justification as well..
NODC already adjusted the data up prior to Cheng twisting it more.
Isn’t that amazing? Using the “NODC-mapping” method, Cheng et al. show a warming rate for the global oceans of +0.0045 deg C/year for the period of 1970-2005, but the reconstruction for the same depths of 0-700 meters directly from the NODC website show a warming rate of only +0.0033 deg C/year. Now consider that the outcome of Cheng et al.’s new method of infilling the oodles and oodles of missing data in the depths of the oceans shows the global oceans warming at a rate of +0.0061 deg C/ year. In other words, for the period of 1970 to 2005, Cheng et al. have almost doubled the warming rate of the basic NODC reconstruction for the depths of 0-700 meters.
The deceptions continue... the ramp up to the Paris Power Grab continues.
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