Note that the figure at the top is
average temperature change from 1986 — 2005 to 2081 — 2100.
January's mark of 1.4 °C, put the global
average temperature change from early industrial levels for the first three months of 2016 at 1.48 °C.
You will also need to calculate spatially -
averaged temperature changes from the gridded model and observational data.
Not exact matches
We have much better — and more conclusive — evidence for climate
change from more boring sources like global
temperature averages, or the extent of global sea ice, or thousands of years» worth of C02 levels stored frozen in ice cores.
Despite all these variables, scientists
from Svante Arrhenius to those on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change have noted that doubling preindustrial concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere
from 280 parts per million (ppm) would likely result in a world with
average temperatures roughly 3 degrees C warmer.
To produce visualizations that show
temperature and precipitation
changes similar to those included in the IPCC report, the NASA Center for Climate Simulation calculated
average temperature and precipitation
changes from models that ran the four different emissions scenarios.
The
changes shown in these maps compare an
average of the model projections to the
average temperature and precipitation benchmarks observed
from 1971 - 2000.
The risk assessment stems
from the objective stated in the 2015 Paris Agreement regarding climate
change that society keep
average global
temperatures «well below» a 2 °C (3.6 °F) increase
from what they were before the Industrial Revolution.
Even if global warming is limited to these levels,
changes in regional
temperatures (and therefore climate
change impacts) can vary significantly
from the global
average.
A team of researchers
from the University of Eastern Finland and the Finnish Meteorological Society found that over the past 166 years, the country's
average monthly
temperatures have increased by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), a 0.14 C
change per decade.
To find out how
average monthly
temperatures had
changed from 1847 to 2013, the researchers used an advanced statistical time series approach to figure out what
changes in
temperature were due to natural variability and what
changes represented a long - term trend.
Ice core data
from the poles clearly show dramatic swings in
average global
temperatures, but researchers still don't know how local ecosystems reacted to the
change.
But the U.K. Met Office (national weather service), the U.S.'s National Center for Atmospheric Research and other partners around the globe aim to
change that in the future by developing regular assessments — much like present evaluations of global
average temperatures along with building
from the U.K. flooding risk modeling efforts — to determine how much a given season's extreme weather could be attributed to human influence.
The team analyzed an index of sea surface
temperatures from the Bering Sea and found that in years with higher than
average Arctic
temperatures,
changes in atmospheric circulation resulted in the aforementioned anomalous climates throughout North America.
Threats — ranging
from the destruction of coral reefs to more extreme weather events like hurricanes, droughts and floods — are becoming more likely at the
temperature change already underway: as little as 1.8 degree Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) of warming in global
average temperatures.
A newly published research study that combines effects of warming
temperatures from climate
change with stream acidity projects
average losses of around 10 percent of stream habitat for coldwater aquatic species for seven national forests in the southern Appalachians — and up to a 20 percent loss of habitat in the Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests in western North Carolina.
Diurnal
temperature range (DTR) decreased by 0.07 °C per decade
averaged over 1950 to 2004, but had little
change from 1979 to 2004, as both maximum and minimum
temperatures rose at similar rates.
Temperature changes relative to the corresponding
average for 1901 - 1950 (°C)
from decade to decade
from 1906 to 2005 over the Earth's continents, as well as the entire globe, global land area and the global ocean (lower graphs).
The graphic displays monthly global
temperature data
from the U.K. Met Office and charts how each month compares to the
average for the same period
from 1850 - 1900, the same baselines used in the most recent report
from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change.
The Gulf of Thailand
changes from an atmospheric CO2 sink during the boreal winter to a CO2 source in summer due to higher water
temperatures, while other sub-regions as well as the entire
averaged Sunda Shelf act as a continuous source of CO2 for the atmosphere.
The fact that the observations have a «memory»
from month to month (because the ocean is slow to
change temperature) allows us to predict the annual mean
from the year - to - date
average (which implicitly includes the ENSO effect).
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Temperature changes Global mean surface temperature difference from the average for 1880 &m
Temperature changes Global mean surface
temperature difference from the average for 1880 &m
temperature difference
from the
average for 1880 — 2009.
The above diagram helps show that if a station were removed
from the record or did not report data for some period of time, the
average anomaly would not
change significantly, whereas the overall
average temperature could
change significantly, depending on which station dropped out of the record.
Amazing that the
temperature is an
average 23 degrees, a welcome
change from some scorching tropical destinations.
The warming trends in looking at numerous 100 year
temperature plots
from northern and high elevation climate stations... i.e. warming trends in annual mean and minimum
temperature averages, winter monthly means and minimums and especially winter minimum
temperatures and dewpoints... indicate climate warming that is being driven by the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere — no visible effects
from other things like
changes in solar radiation or the levels of cosmic rays.
For example, the global
temperature change when we recovered
from the last ice age
averaged only about 0.1 C per century (and descent into an ice age tended to be even slower)... whereas we are now looking at
changes greater than that happening in one decade.
But because of the necessary caveats that must be applied due to the state of the science I am starting to feel unable to say much about climate
change apart
from: «The increase in CO2 will very probably cause an overall increase in Global
Average Temperature.
More than 95 % of the 5 yr running mean of the surface
temperature change since 1850 can be replicated by an integration of the sunspot data (as a proxy for ocean heat content), departing
from the
average value over the period of the sunspot record (~ 40SSN), plus the superimposition of a ~ 60 yr sinusoid representing the observed oceanic oscillations.
There is no evidence that anything unusual happened
from the added CO2 in the second half of the 20th century... and the
average temperature has barely
changed so far in the 21st century, especially if you ignore the 2015 / 2016 El Nino peak, which has nothing to do with CO2.
I also used my implementation to break up a quick land response
from a slow ocean response to see if the
change in sign of the derived
temperature derivative coming at a place where it is not intersecting the instantaneous
temperature might be explained by the derived
temperature being an
average.
Starting
from an old equilbrium, a
change in radiative forcing results in a radiative imbalance, which results in energy accumulation or depletion, which causes a
temperature response that approahes equilibrium when the remaining imbalance approaches zero — thus the equilibrium climatic response, in the global - time
average (for a time period long enough to characterize the climatic state, including externally imposed cycles (day, year) and internal variability), causes an opposite
change in radiative fluxes (via Planck function)(plus convective fluxes, etc, where they occur) equal in magnitude to the sum of the (externally) imposed forcing plus any «forcings» caused by non-Planck feedbacks (in particular, climate - dependent
changes in optical properties, + etc.).)
For precisely this reason, the numerous proxy and model - based estimates of the variations in the
average temperature of the Northern Hemisphere (not just just the Mann et al reconstruction, as implied by your comment) show far more modest
temperature changes than those typically interpreted
from specific proxy records
from any one region.
When we consider that the
average Ozone
change between 1950 and 2000 in was approximately 280 Dobson units we have another contributor to the reduction in the Stratospheric
temperatures that are missing
from your strawman.
So the intensity of radiation (at some frequency and polarization)
changes over distance, such that, in the direction the intensity is going, it is always approaching the blackbody value (Planck function) for the local
temperature; it approaches this quickly if the absorption cross section density is high; if the cross section density is very high and the
temperature doesn't vary much over distance, the intensity may be nearly equal to the Planck function for that location; otherwise its value is a weighted
average of the Planck function of local
temperature extending back over the path in the direction it came
from.
The standstil of global
average temperature predicted by the «improved» modell compared to warming predicted
from the «old» modell is nothing that happens in the future, it should have happened (but did not happen) in the past,
from 1985 to 1999: The «improved» modell (green graph) shows that the global
average temperature did not
change from 1985 (= mean 1980 - 1990) to 1999 (= mean 1994 to 2004).
It is likely that the
change in
temperature due to the
change in concentration was more like when CO2 reached 280ppm
from 140ppm the global
average temperature would have rose roughly 2 Deg.
«the ultra-conservative International Energy Agency concludes that, «coal will nearly overtake oil as the dominant energy source by 2017... without a major shift away
from coal,
average global
temperatures could rise by 6 degrees Celsius by 2050, leading to devastating climate
change.»
If you have a reconstruction of annual
average temperatures at a location over the past 1000 yrs with an error range of, say, + / -0.3 deg C in the proxy data, and the net
temperature change over that time period is 1.0 deg C
from the proxy data, your counts and timing of records are going to be heavily dependent on errors.
Also to help with context what is the
average and standard deviation of the
change in
temperature from one year to the next?
If one takes the MBH98 / 99 reconstruction as base, the variation in the pre-industrial period was ~ 0.2 K, of which less than 0.1 K (in
average)
from volcanic eruptions, the rest mostly
from solar (I doubt that land use
changes had much influence on global
temperatures).
Scientists at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) gather data
from a global network of some 800 climate - monitoring stations to measure
changes in the earth's
average temperature.
International journalist and author Dahr Jamail wrote on the nonprofit news site Truth-out.org in December 2014 that «coal will likely overtake oil as the dominant energy source by 2017, and without a major shift away
from coal,
average global
temperatures could rise by 6 degrees Celsius by 2050, leading to devastating climate
change.
This comment
from the abstract is correct: The stability and natural fluctuations of the global
average surface
temperature of the heterogeneous system are ultimately determined by the phase
changes of water.
Please note also that the
change in global
average temperature from one year to the next is as high as half a degree worldwide, and is much more in any given location, often several degrees and occasionally much more.
In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change Fifth Assessment Report stated a clear expert consensus that: «It is extremely likely [defined as 95 - 100 % certainty] that more than half of the observed increase in global
average surface
temperature from 1951 to 2010 was caused by the anthropogenic [human - caused] increase in greenhouse gas concentrations and other anthropogenic forcings together.»
... Conclusions Since 1950, global
average temperature anomalies have been driven firstly,
from 1950 to 1987, by a sustained shift in ENSO conditions, by reductions in total cloud cover (1987 to late 1990s) and then a shift
from low cloud to mid and high - level cloud, with both
changes in cloud cover being very widespread.
But an April report
from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change finds that the current trajectory would translate to a rise in
average global
temperatures in the 3.7 - 4.8 degrees Celsius range (6.7 - 8.4 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of this century.
The Fifth Assessment Report
from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC)-- the world's leading climate science body — projected a number of scenarios, each plotting amounts of carbon emissions and the resulting future global
average temperatures.
The crux of Bates» claim is that NOAA, the federal government's top agency in charge of climate science, published a poorly - researched but widely praised study with the political goal of disproving the controversial global warming hiatus theory, which suggests that global warming slowed down
from 1998 until 2012 with little
change in globally -
averaged surface
temperatures — a direct contrast to global warming advocates» claim that the earth's
temperature has been constantly increasing.
Data gleaned
from 56 meteorological stations showed heat waves increasing
from 1980 to 2009, a period marked by glacier retreats, steadily rising
average temperature in the Indus delta and
changes in
temperature behaviour in summer and winter.