When one compares
the different global temperature data sets correctly, one result emerges more strongly than any other: that they agree.
Not exact matches
The range (due to
different data sets) of
global surface warming since 1979 is 0.16 °C to 0.18 °C per decade compared to 0.12 °C to 0.19 °C per decade for MSU estimates of tropospheric
temperatures.
Each agency has slightly
different methods of processing the
data and
different baseline periods they use for comparison, as do other groups around the world that monitor
global temperatures, leading to slightly
different year - to - year numbers.
The two agencies use slightly
different methods of assembling the
global temperature data, leading to the slightly varying numbers, though both datasets show the clear warming of the planet.
The
global average
temperature anomaly was adjusted by
data managers [
different groups followed differently and they don't match]-- earlier
data adjusted downwards and current
data upwards.
The Associated Press has put out an interesting interactive mapof climate change
data, including the emission trends from countries in the northern hemisphere, graphs of the various indicators of
global warming such as glacier melts and
global temperatures, and the pledges that
different countries have made when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Estimates of the
global and annual mean
temperature based on a number of
different data sets, including both traditional analyses as well as re-analyses (also see the last 15 years).
Estimates of the
global and annual mean
temperature based on a number of
different data sets, including both traditional analyses as well as re-analyses
«Another recent paper used a
different NOAA ocean surface
temperature data set to find that since 2003 the
global average ocean surface
temperature has been rising at a rate that is an order of magnitude smaller than the rate of increase reported in Karl's paper.»
The range (due to
different data sets) of
global surface warming since 1979 is 0.16 °C to 0.18 °C per decade compared to 0.12 °C to 0.19 °C per decade for MSU estimates of tropospheric
temperatures.
US land - only
temperature doesn't have a markedly
different trend than
global satellite
data.
Scientists from NOAA, WHO, and the UK Met Office use much of the same raw
temperature data, but with
different baseline periods or slightly
different methods to analyze Earth's polar regions and
global temperatures.
Previous large natural oscillations are important to examine: however, 1) our
data isn't as good with regards to external forcings or to historical
temperatures, making attribution more difficult, 2) to the extent that we have solar and volcanic
data, and paleoclimate
temperature records, they are indeed fairly consistent with each other within their respective uncertainties, and 3) most mechanisms of internal variability would have
different fingerprints: eg, shifting of warmth from the oceans to the atmosphere (but we see warming in both), or simultaneous warming of the troposphere and stratosphere, or shifts in
global temperature associated with major ocean current shifts which for the most part haven't been seen.
The answer to this lies in how the
different datasets deal with having little or no
data in remote parts of the world, measurement errors, changes in instrumentation over time and other factors that make capturing
global temperature a less - than - straightforward task.
«If you plot other
data sets, you'll get slightly
different results, but the same take - home message: there's nothing in recent
global temperatures that disproves the importance of CO2 as an agent for climate change.»
Global temperature anomalies from January 1991 through December 2010 as contained in five
different data compilations.
The Hockey Stick is an accurate reflection of historic
global temperature — it is of course, but only if you splice together
different time series, ignore inconvenient facts and cherry pick the
data.
The use of
different data temperature sets, whether it is
global surface
temperatures or satellite measurements, is one of the major points of contention in the climate debate.
Such an assessment should involve a detailed analysis of the sensitivity of
global - mean
temperatures derived from these three
different measurement systems to the various choices made in the processing of the raw
data — e.g., corrections for instrument changes, adjustments for orbital decay effects in the satellite measurements, and procedures for interpolating station
data onto grids.
The announcement does not come as a surprise, considering the Japan Meteorological Agency announced that 2014 was the warmest year on record in its
data set last week, even though each science center uses slightly
different methods to analyze
global temperatures.
«They» used
different compilation methods to generate the
different graphs of
global temperature from the same available record of measurement
data.
A third and very
different data set is overseen by John Christy... «From 1997 - 2011 our
data show a
global temperature rise of 0.15 C,» he said.
The range (due to
different data sets) of the
global mean tropospheric
temperature trend since 1979 is 0.12 °C to 0.19 °C per decade based on satellite - based estimates (Chapter 3) compared to a range of 0.16 °C to 0.18 °C per decade for the
global surface warming.
When we look at the distributions (e.g.
data, 1st difference, 2nd difference) of the observations of
global temperature, and of modeled
temperature, they are very
different.
Yet a «
global mean
temperature» is calculated, and the difference between two such calculations from
data sets from
different years, is suppose to be accurate to the 0.00 level.
The amount of adjustments to
global temperature data is odd shall we say, HADCRUt4 showing
different (warmer) than HADCRUT3 for example.
Scientists are working their hardest to create the most accurate possible record of
global temperatures, and use a number of methods including tests using synthetic
data, side - by - side comparisons of
different instruments, and analysis from multiple independent groups to ensure that their results are robust.
Further confidence in the models is provided by premise # 4, even though the agreement of
different models and forcing datasets arises from the selection of forcing
data sets and model parameters by inverse calculations designed to agree with the 20th century time series of
global surface
temperature anomalies.
One of the basic problems in reaching rational conclusions with regard to
global climate change problems is that AGW proponents and skeptics largely use
different data sources and very
different analyses of the
global temperature data to support their cases.