But
global average temperatures tell only a fraction of the story.
Not exact matches
All
told, such efforts to restrain methane and soot emissions could help hold back
global average temperature increases by more than 0.5 degree Celsius this century and improve public health.
All I can say is that my funny internal feelings
tell me that there is no hard data to show that
average global temperatures, in 2007, are rising as fast as the GCMs predict.
Anthropogenic GHG warming is about the Earth's energy balance, and thus, looking at an
average global near - surface
temperature, or the total ocean heat content can
tell us something useful about that energy balance.
In February 2016,
average global temperatures topped 1.5 °C, and scientists
tell us another 0.5 °C of warming is already «in the system» unless we can also draw down excess carbon dioxide currently in the atmosphere.
Pachauri
told lawmakers that greenhouse gas emissions must peak in 2015 - and drop 25 to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 - if the world is to keep
global average temperatures from rising above 2.4 degrees Celsius.
«
Average global temperature increases, geographically, at a linear rate from 60 ° N or S latitude towards the equator, but levels off between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn,» Robert Colwell of the University of Connecticut, US, co-author of a recent paper in Science,
told environmentalresearchweb.
Though a 1 C rise in
global temperature may not
tell us anything about
global climate -
temperature is not really something which effect humans or life, whereas patterns rainfall, would be more relevant than
average global temperature.
So, how do we
tell the homogenized, infilled
global average temperature series are warming from Co2?
The well below freezing surface winter
temperatures of Northern high latitudes are such wildly variable almost non-correlated data points which
tell almost nothing of the real warming (i.e. increase in heat content of the Earth system) but may affect in an unpredictable way the
global average surface
temperature.
While calculations indicate that
global average temperatures should be rising predictably, the planetary thermometers
tell a different story.
The primary problem is that the entire
global warming movement is being sold based on
telling people that the
global average temperature of the Earth is increasing at a dangerous rate.
Global temperature deviations in the Average Temperature Anomaly map below tell the bigger pic
temperature deviations in the
Average Temperature Anomaly map below tell the bigger pic
Temperature Anomaly map below
tell the bigger picture story.