In each case it is clear that the same trick has been played — to turn
an essentially flat temperature chart into a graph which shows temperatures steadily rising.
(
The essentially flat temperature of 2000 - 2010 is real, and the trend for that decade can not be changed in 2020 by including the temperature for 2010 - 2020 unless you define decadal trend in some other way.)
1958 — 1963 has
essentially flat temperatures, then there is a big drop in 1964 followed by a steady upward trend from 1964 to 1988 (and, unfortunately for all us, on through to today).
Not exact matches
His
temperature graph for the past millennium was
essentially flat until the 20th century, when a sharp upward spike occurs — i.e., it looks like a hockey stick.
His
temperature graph for the past millennium was
essentially flat until the 20th century, when a sharp upward spike occurs — i.e., it looks like a hockey stick.
All of the models ca 2007 that the IPCC used to forecast climate change predicted a steady increase in
temperature (based, as they were, on the assumption that CO2 is the primary driver of
temperature) and yet global
temperatures have remained
essentially flat since then.
He's found that the
essentially flat raw
temperature data:
In fact, the satellite and thermometer technologies seem to be diverging in what they are telling us in recent years, with the thermometers continuing to warm, and the satellite
temperatures essentially flat - lining.
The chart shows the
temperature - time plots are
essentially flat.
There is about a 12 degree C range where the growth rate vs
temperature is
essentially flat.
The same for the period 2000 - current, where the
temperature is
essentially flat, but the CO2 levels increase faster and faster...
The facts are that tropospheric
temperatures have stayed
essentially flat for about 15 years.
Global
temperatures move up and down in a narrow band, which is why the rolling 5 - year averages are
essentially flat.
Dr. Judith Curry recently compared five data sets of global
temperatures and found that all but one show the warming trend has been
essentially flat for various periods exceeding 10 years in length during the past 18 years.
For example, she could have pointed out that the global
temperatures have been
essentially flat for 15 years and that small rises or falls on a plateau are to be expected.
The only time you and your heroes started admitting that GAT wasn't G, wasn't really A, and T wasn't really the best measure, was when their own reported
temperature records had
essentially flat lined for about 15 years.
Yet since about 2000 (or 2001) the average surface
temperature has been
essentially flat, and since 2003 the ocean heat content (according to Argo) has been
flat to slightly falling....
The chart's black line represents the global
temperature increase of 0.26 °C by 2100 if the U.S. allowed emissions to remain at the 2008 level (since 2003, U.S. annual emissions have been
essentially flat, with no CO2 regulations).
quote: «global mean
temperatures have increased on the order of one degree Fahrenheit over the past century, having risen significantly from about 1919 to 1940, decreased between 1940 and the early»70s, increased again until the»90s, and remaining
essentially flat since 1998.»
As Tony's charts show, the overall trend since around 1530 to today was
essentially flat (no hockey stick at all), with
temperatures at the beginning of the record
essentially at the same level as today).