What I find most intriguing with this post is Figure 1. And I don’t mean the cold snap this December but instead how remarkably normal this year looks. Nearly the entire time is spent in the 5-95 percentiles, and really the 10-90 percentiles. I see the temp just bouncing around the normal with no systematic cold or warm. The spike of warmth in May and smaller one near the Oct/Nov transition are more than countered by the recent cold alone. The January cold is also apparent…but really, looks about normal to me.
Here’s another one for you to handily debunk Steve:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40662796/ns/us_news-environment/
Already discussing that paper:
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/romm-antarctica-is-disintegrating/
What I find most intriguing with this post is Figure 1. And I don’t mean the cold snap this December but instead how remarkably normal this year looks. Nearly the entire time is spent in the 5-95 percentiles, and really the 10-90 percentiles. I see the temp just bouncing around the normal with no systematic cold or warm. The spike of warmth in May and smaller one near the Oct/Nov transition are more than countered by the recent cold alone. The January cold is also apparent…but really, looks about normal to me.
-Scott
It is the hottest year ever.
http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcet/graphs/HadCET_graph_ylybars_uptodate.gif
This year will almost certainly be below the 1961-90 average.