tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post5094212582307214728..comments2024-03-25T05:30:23.847+11:00Comments on HotWhopper: Watching the global thermometer - year to date GISTemp with August 2015Souhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-62289489404952018552015-09-18T05:48:52.460+10:002015-09-18T05:48:52.460+10:00"BTW if anyone wants to put together other wa..."BTW if anyone wants to put together other ways of illustrating this, eg by maps or other means..." Sou's last comment last month on 'YTD including July', regarding reaching a graphically challenged audience.<br /><br />1.....An obvious corollary would be to make graphs easier to read. Which might start by presenting readers with one they've seen before, by plagiarizing the omnipresent 1880-2014 GISTemp "Global Land-Ocean Temperature Index" (LOTI) graph (with its 5-year running mean) whenever possible.<br /><br />2.....Then an obvious way to use the global temperature maps might be to locate two of them to the right of the above graph with arrows to their respective readings, for ~1970 and ~2014.<br /><br />3.....If the y-axis is extended up to ~1.0, the Hot Whopper YTD graph will fit above the LOTI curve. Only the hottest years should be individually color coded: 1998, 2005, 2010 & 2014. The rest of the above individually-uninteresting 'pause year' spaghetti would be the same color. Which will be repeated in the LOTI's 1998-2013 'year-squares and their interconnecting lines. Thus forming a tamino (22Jul & 30Jul) denial-time box.<br /><br />That there is the recent Lewandowsky, Risbey & Oreskes, 2015 [The 'Pause' in Global Warming: Turning a Routine Fluctuation into a Problem for Science.] is an indication that this killer graphical depiction of tamino's denial-time box would have continuing usefulness. Same Ordinary Foolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07688744006745904247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-60462047118960784462015-09-17T08:46:50.522+10:002015-09-17T08:46:50.522+10:00Lewis Page is the resident equivalent of James Del...Lewis Page is the resident equivalent of James Delingpole at The Register.<br /><br />He nurtures a small group of commentards that agree with his distortions of the science.<br /><br />You should note that he completely reversed the message from the UK Met Office. He does this by the usual denier methods. If this fails he is not averse to outright lies. BertBert from Elthamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-32577513126371138142015-09-16T20:41:19.242+10:002015-09-16T20:41:19.242+10:00What kind of chem trail toting wipe is that 't...What kind of chem trail toting wipe is that 'the register'?cRR Kampenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07571285063752477448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-120532922750074552015-09-15T23:50:43.731+10:002015-09-15T23:50:43.731+10:00Meanwhile, in theregister, Lewis Page manages to m...Meanwhile, in theregister, Lewis Page manages to mention that Hurricanes are lessening in the Atlantic without mentioning the El Nino, or the PDO.<br /><br />http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/14/absence_of_global_warming_may_be_set_to_continue_uk_met_office/Luther Blissetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14341825491864338554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-83001703600344500502015-09-15T07:56:11.417+10:002015-09-15T07:56:11.417+10:00According to a UK Met Office release yesterday, &q...According to a UK Met Office release yesterday, "big changes" are underway.<br /><br />"The latest climate predictions and global observations suggest that shifts in key global climate patterns, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), an El Niño in the tropical Pacific and the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation (AMO) are underway. They are implicated in the weak Indian monsoon and relatively inactive Atlantic hurricane season this year and will affect regional temperature and rainfall worldwide in coming years. They also affect global temperature; with a warming influence from El Nino and positive PDO, and a cooling from a negative AMO."<br /><br />"These changes suggest both 2015 and 2016 are likely to be very warm globally. Earth’s average surface temperature is running at or near record levels so far in 2015 at 0.38±0.14°C* above the 1981-2010 average (0.68±0.14 °C above the 1961-1990 average)"<br /><br />"These changes are consistent with a return of rapid warming in the near term. Professor Scaife continued: “We can’t be sure this is the end of the slowdown but decadal warming rates are likely to reach late 20th century levels within two years.”<br /><br />http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2015/big-changes<br /><br />http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34226178<br />MikeHnoreply@blogger.com