warmest January on record

[CrusaderFrank]

Right now.

Low Total Solar Irradiance.

Low Sunpspots.

El Nino.

A 40% increase in CO2, a 150% increase in CH4, and a bunch of really nasty industrial GHGs.

So far this year, record temperatures globally. Looks like the latter two factors cancelled out the effect of the sun.

Now, let us look at the prior two years, 2008, and 2007.

Low TSI.

Low Sunspot activity.

Strong and persistant La Nina.

40% increase in CO2. 150% increase in CH4. And some really nasty industrial GHGs.

So three out of four factors say that we should have had a couple of really cold years. But both years rank among the ten warmest on record.

So what happened PP? Why did not the solar effect overpower the GHG effect?

Sorry, only reporting the "warm" places does not make it either Global or warming

Even the article says this, "This record warmth will seem strange to those who have experienced an unusually cold winter. While I have not checked into this, my first guess is that the atmospheric general circulation this winter has become unusually land-locked, allowing cold air masses to intensify over the major Northern Hemispheric land masses more than usual."

 

[CrusaderFrank]

He is not discussing ground temperatures and you know it, he is discussing temperatures higher then that. They can not keep the warming trend going with ground readings so are resorting to this bullshit.

He's also using numbers that have deliberately excluded stations at higher altitudes, while including measurements taken from obvious heat islands.....That's how the frauds have jimmied the numbers.

Still, the troposphere is where it is.

When the frauds Christy and Spencer jimmied the Troposphere numbers by using the opposite sign to "correct" for diurnal satellite drift, the deniers were claiming UAH satellite Troposphere data was the ONLY accurate data. Now that the correct sign is being used and the satellite data matches exactly the surface data, Troposphere data is suddenly suspect even though there are no heat islands in satellites.

So how do you explain the nearly exact correlation between surface data and satellite data?

Sorry, only reporting the "warm" places does not make it either Global or warming

Even the article says this, "This record warmth will seem strange to those who have experienced an unusually cold winter. While I have not checked into this, my first guess is that the atmospheric general circulation this winter has become unusually land-locked, allowing cold air masses to intensify over the major Northern Hemispheric land masses more than usual."

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I have no understanding of how the Glacier Eating CO2 Spaghetti Monster works.

The USA pumps out more of it than anyone, yet the CO2 warms the atmosphere (making cooler here in the USA) and the Arctic Ocean (again, apparently making it cooler here in the USA)

How can we possibly defeat such a diabolical creature?

 

[edthecynic]

He's also using numbers that have deliberately excluded stations at higher altitudes, while including measurements taken from obvious heat islands.....That's how the frauds have jimmied the numbers.

Still, the troposphere is where it is.

When the frauds Christy and Spencer jimmied the Troposphere numbers by using the opposite sign to "correct" for diurnal satellite drift, the deniers were claiming UAH satellite Troposphere data was the ONLY accurate data. Now that the correct sign is being used and the satellite data matches exactly the surface data, Troposphere data is suddenly suspect even though there are no heat islands in satellites.

So how do you explain the nearly exact correlation between surface data and satellite data?

Sorry, only reporting the "warm" places does not make it either Global or warming

Baloney, satellites don't pick and choose what they measure.

So again, how can the surface data match the satellite data from multiple sources so closely???

 

[SFC Ollie]

Record cold weather roundup – hundreds of new cold and snow records set in the last week
Record cold weather roundup – hundreds of new cold and snow records set in the last week Watts Up With That?

Frosty Florida sets record low temperatures
Frosty Florida sets record low temperatures - USATODAY.com

Record Cold Snap Still Grips Bay Area
Record Cold Snap Still Grips Bay Area - cbs5.com

Took all of a minute to find these 3 stories. I wonder how many are out there?

 

[oreo]

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The global-average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly soared to +0.72 deg. C in
January, 2010. This is the warmest January in the 32-year satellite-based data record.

The tropics and Northern and Southern Hemispheres were all well above normal, especially the tropics where El Nino conditions persist. Note the global-average warmth is approaching the warmth reached during the 1997-98 El Nino, which peaked in February of 1998.

This record warmth will seem strange to those who have experienced an unusually cold winter. While I have not checked into this, my first guess is that the atmospheric general circulation this winter has become unusually land-locked, allowing cold air masses to intensify over the major Northern Hemispheric land masses more than usual. Note this ALSO means that not as much cold air is flowing over and cooling the ocean surface compared to normal. Nevertheless, we will double check our calculations to make sure we have not make some sort of Y2.01K error (insert smiley). I will also check the AMSR-E sea surface temperatures, which have also been running unusually warm.
A very warm January, for sure.

Well heck after freezing my butt off here in Colorado in January---I'll be heading up to the artic---maybe it'll be sprouting some palm trees before I arrive?

 

[Liability]

Something to ponder:

The following are just the words of some guy commenting about a blogger's blog relative to this warmest January temperature anomaly.

3. At 11:54am on 05 Feb 2010, PingoSan wrote:

What seems to have happened is that due to the Arctic Oscillation turning negative, a lot of the major population centres in the NH turned cold at the same time. The cold air was shoved south, making the Arctic much warmer than normal, sure... but two factors to consider.

i) The cold in the Arctic gets quickly replenished at this time of the year. So cold air is shoved south, the Arctic is temporarily warmer..and then that warmth is dissipated/radiated back out to space quite easily at this time of year from the Arctic. Consider equator belts expanding north into the Northern Hemisphere, the central equator belt might cool temporarily as the warmth is dissipated out, but the warmth is quickly replenished thanks to the strong incoming solar radiation. This would be a net global warming effect - so despite the apparent paradox, a warm Arctic at this time of year is actually a strong cooling effect as the heat is being radiated away faster than it can be replenished.

ii) Snowcover. Colder air spilling out of the Arctic leads to snow in lower latititudes, thus increasing the earth's albedo (brightness/reflectivity). This reflects some of the solar radiation back out to space, thus leading to a net cooling effect. But what about the warmer Arctic? Well the Arctic might be a couple of degrees warmer, but it is still way sub-zero at this time of year, so snowcover remains there. An expansion of snowcover thus leads to a net higher reflection of incoming sunlight and a general global cooling.

I expect in a year's time i) and ii) will combine to lead to further global cooling on top of what we have seen so far this decade. Climate is never straightforward. The oceans have just belched out a load of heat and it will not be replaced quickly during this solar slumber.

The current warmth can be seen as paralleling the fiscal stimulus - sure it makes things look warmer/better now, but at a cost in the future. The heat is dissipating...

BBC - Paul Hudson's Blog: January 2010 warmest on record. Yes really!


I can vouch for no part of that. But it will be interesting to see how next year pans out.

 

[edthecynic]

Something to ponder:

The following are just the words of some guy commenting about a blogger's blog relative to this warmest January temperature anomaly.

3. At 11:54am on 05 Feb 2010, PingoSan wrote:

What seems to have happened is that due to the Arctic Oscillation turning negative, a lot of the major population centres in the NH turned cold at the same time. The cold air was shoved south, making the Arctic much warmer than normal, sure... but two factors to consider.

i) The cold in the Arctic gets quickly replenished at this time of the year. So cold air is shoved south, the Arctic is temporarily warmer..and then that warmth is dissipated/radiated back out to space quite easily at this time of year from the Arctic. Consider equator belts expanding north into the Northern Hemisphere, the central equator belt might cool temporarily as the warmth is dissipated out, but the warmth is quickly replenished thanks to the strong incoming solar radiation. This would be a net global warming effect - so despite the apparent paradox, a warm Arctic at this time of year is actually a strong cooling effect as the heat is being radiated away faster than it can be replenished.

ii) Snowcover. Colder air spilling out of the Arctic leads to snow in lower latititudes, thus increasing the earth's albedo (brightness/reflectivity). This reflects some of the solar radiation back out to space, thus leading to a net cooling effect. But what about the warmer Arctic? Well the Arctic might be a couple of degrees warmer, but it is still way sub-zero at this time of year, so snowcover remains there. An expansion of snowcover thus leads to a net higher reflection of incoming sunlight and a general global cooling.

I expect in a year's time i) and ii) will combine to lead to further global cooling on top of what we have seen so far this decade. Climate is never straightforward. The oceans have just belched out a load of heat and it will not be replaced quickly during this solar slumber.

The current warmth can be seen as paralleling the fiscal stimulus - sure it makes things look warmer/better now, but at a cost in the future. The heat is dissipating...

BBC - Paul Hudson's Blog: January 2010 warmest on record. Yes really!


I can vouch for no part of that. But it will be interesting to see how next year pans out.

This "cooling" decade was the WARMEST in the history of direct instrument measurement. What a bunch of morons!

 

[logical4u]

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The global-average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly soared to +0.72 deg. C in
January, 2010. This is the warmest January in the 32-year satellite-based data record.

The tropics and Northern and Southern Hemispheres were all well above normal, especially the tropics where El Nino conditions persist. Note the global-average warmth is approaching the warmth reached during the 1997-98 El Nino, which peaked in February of 1998.

This record warmth will seem strange to those who have experienced an unusually cold winter. While I have not checked into this, my first guess is that the atmospheric general circulation this winter has become unusually land-locked, allowing cold air masses to intensify over the major Northern Hemispheric land masses more than usual. Note this ALSO means that not as much cold air is flowing over and cooling the ocean surface compared to normal. Nevertheless, we will double check our calculations to make sure we have not make some sort of Y2.01K error (insert smiley). I will also check the AMSR-E sea surface temperatures, which have also been running unusually warm.
A very warm January, for sure.

So if we all just agree to turn control of our lives over to gov and pay more taxes, they can fix this, right?
The gov, once it has taken our freedoms, will see to it that we all live in grass huts and forget how to read and what science is. That way we will not care what "global warming" is, and they will have total power (which they will use to live "above" everyone else). Just another "trust me" ponzi scheme that liberals are willing to put all our apples in the same basket, because they will not commit idiocy on their own (if they did, they would have poured Al Gore's millions into proving man could make a difference in the climate).
If you have NO power over the climate, why make yourself panic (isn’t that “fear-mongering”?) over the situation. Control what you can in your own environment, volunteer to help others with theirs, that is all you can do. Do not give your freedom to a gov that cares nothing about the climate (other than it interfering with photo ops), in exchange for a FALSE sense of security.

If it was really as bad as “they” say, why do you think “they” are still burning massive quantities of fuels for “fun trips” and living in mansions that use more power in days than an average American family uses in one year?

Please answer that last question.

 

[Liability]

Something to ponder:

The following are just the words of some guy commenting about a blogger's blog relative to this warmest January temperature anomaly.

3. At 11:54am on 05 Feb 2010, PingoSan wrote:

What seems to have happened is that due to the Arctic Oscillation turning negative, a lot of the major population centres in the NH turned cold at the same time. The cold air was shoved south, making the Arctic much warmer than normal, sure... but two factors to consider.

i) The cold in the Arctic gets quickly replenished at this time of the year. So cold air is shoved south, the Arctic is temporarily warmer..and then that warmth is dissipated/radiated back out to space quite easily at this time of year from the Arctic. Consider equator belts expanding north into the Northern Hemisphere, the central equator belt might cool temporarily as the warmth is dissipated out, but the warmth is quickly replenished thanks to the strong incoming solar radiation. This would be a net global warming effect - so despite the apparent paradox, a warm Arctic at this time of year is actually a strong cooling effect as the heat is being radiated away faster than it can be replenished.

ii) Snowcover. Colder air spilling out of the Arctic leads to snow in lower latititudes, thus increasing the earth's albedo (brightness/reflectivity). This reflects some of the solar radiation back out to space, thus leading to a net cooling effect. But what about the warmer Arctic? Well the Arctic might be a couple of degrees warmer, but it is still way sub-zero at this time of year, so snowcover remains there. An expansion of snowcover thus leads to a net higher reflection of incoming sunlight and a general global cooling.

I expect in a year's time i) and ii) will combine to lead to further global cooling on top of what we have seen so far this decade. Climate is never straightforward. The oceans have just belched out a load of heat and it will not be replaced quickly during this solar slumber.

The current warmth can be seen as paralleling the fiscal stimulus - sure it makes things look warmer/better now, but at a cost in the future. The heat is dissipating...

BBC - Paul Hudson's Blog: January 2010 warmest on record. Yes really!


I can vouch for no part of that. But it will be interesting to see how next year pans out.

This "cooling" decade was the WARMEST in the history of direct instrument measurement. What a bunch of morons!

Really?

http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/AMSR-E_SST_thru_Nov_09.jpg

It might be interesting to READ this piece, too: http://masterresource.org/?p=4872

 

[Old Rocks]

So, in spite of the very strong and persistant La Nina that dragged that chart down for eight years, we had the warmest decade on record.

And when you look at the long term record, it is all up;

NOAA Paleoclimatology Global Warming - The Data

 

[Oddball]

I do believe in spooks...I do believe in spooks...Idoidoidoido believe in spooks!

 

[elvis]

I do believe in spooks...I do believe in spooks...Idoidoidoido believe in spooks!

Is that Gore? or is it Mann or Jones?

 

[Luissa]

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The global-average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly soared to +0.72 deg. C in
January, 2010. This is the warmest January in the 32-year satellite-based data record.

The tropics and Northern and Southern Hemispheres were all well above normal, especially the tropics where El Nino conditions persist. Note the global-average warmth is approaching the warmth reached during the 1997-98 El Nino, which peaked in February of 1998.

This record warmth will seem strange to those who have experienced an unusually cold winter. While I have not checked into this, my first guess is that the atmospheric general circulation this winter has become unusually land-locked, allowing cold air masses to intensify over the major Northern Hemispheric land masses more than usual. Note this ALSO means that not as much cold air is flowing over and cooling the ocean surface compared to normal. Nevertheless, we will double check our calculations to make sure we have not make some sort of Y2.01K error (insert smiley). I will also check the AMSR-E sea surface temperatures, which have also been running unusually warm.
A very warm January, for sure.

We had the worst winter last year, getting 30 more inches than what DC is at now.
This January was the warmest ever recorded, with temps usually 10 degrees warmer than the average temp.

 

[Zoom-boing]

35 years ago they were sure it was global cooling and another ice age was imminent. And that was long before those e-mails. And that false info on the melting Himalayan glaciers. And the role of water vapor increasing temps.

Science: Another Ice Age? - TIME

Claims Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035 were false, says UN scientist | Environment | The Guardian

Water vapour caused one-third of global warming in 1990s, study reveals | Environment | The Guardian

 

[Dr Grump]

I knew they should have kept with the term climate change. Calling it global warming gives the kooks the excuse they need to carry on their denial....

 

[elvis]

I knew they should have kept with the term climate change. Calling it global warming gives the kooks the excuse they need to carry on their denial....

we are warming. the question is: is it man-made or not?

 

[Dr Grump]

I knew they should have kept with the term climate change. Calling it global warming gives the kooks the excuse they need to carry on their denial....

we are warming. the question is: is it man-made or not?

Yeah, well tell that to the likes of Ollie et al, who never miss a moment with regard to how cold they are....

 

[elvis]

I knew they should have kept with the term climate change. Calling it global warming gives the kooks the excuse they need to carry on their denial....

we are warming. the question is: is it man-made or not?

Yeah, well tell that to the likes of Ollie et al, who never miss a moment with regard to how cold they are....

well it's no different from the other side saying how hot it is in the summer.

 

[Maple]

man made global warming

We think so highly of ourselves don't we

It has nothing to do with the sun, i swear.

Yeah and those Martians are sure not the environmentalists that we thought they were either, because they are driving around in their SUV's , burning all that coal, cutting down their rain forests and destroying their planet at the same rate we are.

This is an emergency- has Al Gore been called about this. He needs to get on his private jet right now and fly to Mars to see what the hell is going on up there.