UAH says 4th warmest year on record

[ScienceRocks]

The global average anomalies by year (2013 was the 4th warmest since satellite monitoring started in 1979):

1979 -0.170
1980 -0.008
1981 -0.045
1982 -0.250
1983 -0.061
1984 -0.353
1985 -0.309
1986 -0.244
1987 +0.013
1988 +0.012
1989 -0.207
1990 -0.022
1991 +0.020
1992 -0.289
1993 -0.245
1994 -0.108
1995 +0.013
1996 -0.076
1997 -0.049
1998 +0.419
1999 -0.056
2000 -0.061
2001 +0.107
2002 +0.218
2003 +0.187
2004 +0.108
2005 +0.260
2006 +0.186
2007 +0.204
2008 -0.009
2009 +0.209
2010 +0.398
2011 +0.130
2012 +0.170
2013 +0.236

UAH v5.6 Global Temperature Update for Dec. 2013: +0.27 Deg. C « Roy Spencer, PhD

This was also made possible with tying for second warmest dec on record!!! Not bad for a -enso year. Not bad at all.

"4th warmest year on record" is another way of saying that temperatures have been flat.

We don't count trends based on valleys or mountains We count trends based on the moving "means" of the avg over time. What this shows is the 1990's were very much dictated by the huge volcano's and the 2000-2010's were more enso dictated.

What does this tell us?
1. The 1990's super warming = 1/3rd rebound.
2. 2000-2014 are very much enso...

So this explains most of the pause. Not all of it of course but that can be explained with increase of aerosols from china and -pdo.

 

[bripat9643]

Currently, in the real world, 2010 is tied with 2005 as the warmest year on record globally.

All of the warmest years on record have occurred since 1998. Even the coolest years since 1998 are warmer than any of the years on record before 1998.

That's another way of saying "temperatures have been flat."

Only if you're very, very retarded......so I guess it could seem that way to you, little crackpot. Sane people laugh at you.

Wrong. That's exactly what it says. If the latest temperature is not the record, then temperatures are not increasing.

 

[bripat9643]

The global average anomalies by year (2013 was the 4th warmest since satellite monitoring started in 1979):

1979 -0.170
1980 -0.008
1981 -0.045
1982 -0.250
1983 -0.061
1984 -0.353
1985 -0.309
1986 -0.244
1987 +0.013
1988 +0.012
1989 -0.207
1990 -0.022
1991 +0.020
1992 -0.289
1993 -0.245
1994 -0.108
1995 +0.013
1996 -0.076
1997 -0.049
1998 +0.419
1999 -0.056
2000 -0.061
2001 +0.107
2002 +0.218
2003 +0.187
2004 +0.108
2005 +0.260
2006 +0.186
2007 +0.204
2008 -0.009
2009 +0.209
2010 +0.398
2011 +0.130
2012 +0.170
2013 +0.236

UAH v5.6 Global Temperature Update for Dec. 2013: +0.27 Deg. C « Roy Spencer, PhD

This was also made possible with tying for second warmest dec on record!!! Not bad for a -enso year. Not bad at all.

"4th warmest year on record" is another way of saying that temperatures have been flat.

We don't count trends based on valleys or mountains We count trends based on the moving "means" of the avg over time. What this shows is the 1990's were very much dictated by the huge volcano's and the 2000-2010's were more enso dictated.

What does this tell us?
1. The 1990's super warming = 1/3rd rebound.
2. 2000-2014 are very much enso...

So this explains most of the pause. Not all of it of course but that can be explained with increase of aerosols from china and -pdo.

What is shows is that since 1998 temperatures have been flat or declining. Your theories about why are subject to debate.

 

[Abraham3]

What is shows is that since 1998 temperatures have been flat or declining. Your theories about why are subject to debate.

Well, surface temperatures are warming at a much reduced rate. I don't think anyone's global temperatures are actually declining.

HOWEVER, your last sentence is CORRECT! The reasons that temperatures have behaved the way that they have for the last 15 years (or the last 150 years) are open to debate. But, when you say they are because AGW is false, that's not debating.

If you want to debate - as you just suggested - you need to bring some evidence to the table.

So... whaddya got?