UAH – 30 Years Of Warming Up In Smoke

11 Responses to UAH – 30 Years Of Warming Up In Smoke

1. suyts says:

   March 12, 2011 at 3:16 pm

   This is quite a remarkable free fall, but not unlike the one we saw a couple of years ago………..I haven’t seen the health of La Nina lately.

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   • stevengoddard says:

     March 12, 2011 at 3:18 pm

     La Nina is fading fast.

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     • HopeyChangey says:

       March 12, 2011 at 5:17 pm

       Following the end of La Nina, atmospheric temps will fall another 9 months or so?

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2. B Buckner says:

   March 12, 2011 at 4:06 pm

   I too do not understand your point. It is not even as cold as it was two years ago. Your top plot only compares temps to the last 8 years, not 30.

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   • stevengoddard says:

     March 12, 2011 at 4:11 pm

     March temperatures are colder than two years ago, and UAH only provides daily data for the last eight years.

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   • Paul H says:

     March 12, 2011 at 5:29 pm

     0.4C colder than 2 years ago and going down. Global temps normally start rising in March as the Northern Hemisphere with its greater land mass has a bigger seasonal temperature variation than the Southern.

     If you check out the UAH data below you will see there has been a sharp drop since the start of the month.

     http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/execute.csh?amsutemps

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     • Ted Wagner says:

       March 15, 2011 at 2:42 pm

       The page at that link is b0rken:

       Error!
       Error return (1) from MCU_GetPost

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3. Amino Acids in Meteorites says:

   March 12, 2011 at 5:27 pm

   30 years is such a short time for determining any trend. If not for the super El Nino spike of 1998 there would be cooling in the last 30 years. But that wouldn’t mean much either since it’s only measured in 1/100ths of a degree.

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   • Philip Finck says:

     March 12, 2011 at 6:04 pm

     I don’t mean to be difficult but that certainly isn’t `visually’ intuitive but yes to over the last say 12 years. It will be interesting to see the temperature trends over say the next 10 years,or 20, 0r 30 …… after which I won’t give a #@*&. 🙂

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   • Al Gored says:

     March 12, 2011 at 9:49 pm

     Amino – Indeed. 30 years on an ice core graph barely registers.

     Still, it is starting to look like we’ve wasted a lot of CO2 on this warming project.

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4. richcar 1225 says:

   March 13, 2011 at 4:44 am

   Check out the SOI index.
   http://ioc3.unesco.org/oopc/state_of_the_ocean/atm/soi.php
   Mclean etal estimate a 7 month lag between the SOI and global temps. SOI is at a record high. From here I estimate we will drop another 1 degree C. The next panic over global cooling will start and be blamed on gobal warming. Who would guess that this much heat could be lost so fast. If .1 degrees per decade warming translates into 1 watt/meter of radiative imbalance at the top of the atmosphere then 1 degree cooling over six months must be something like 200 watts per meter of cooling.

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