At this time, the coverage provided by weather stations allowed for
essentially global temperature data.
Not exact matches
This is
essentially CO2 perturbation
data and the results are very interesting; the following graph summarizes the findings: Rapid differential changes in CO2 levels track with
global temperatures, with a variance reduction of 30 % if d [CO2] derivatives are included in the model.
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.