The above chart plots the changing 3 - year linear trend slopes using monthly observations going back to 1850 (this is the HadCRUT4 dataset from the UK climate research agency - it is
the only global dataset going back that far).
Not exact matches
Firstly, there was a trend of cooling from the 40's to the 70's (although that needs to be qualified, as hemispheric or
global temperature
datasets were
only just beginning to be assembled then).
We acknowledged at the time our paper was published that the historical
dataset we used is under - sampled, as
only satellites can provide a seamless
global grid of observations.
This criterion may not be satisfied if observations are available
only over a short time period (as is the case for the vertical structure of clouds), or if the predictor is defined through low - frequency variability (trends, decadal variability), or if there is a lack of consistency among available
datasets (as in the case for
global - mean precipitation and surface fluxes).
This paper points out that
global coal consumption (primarily from China) has increased significantly, although the
dataset referred to shows an increase
only since 2004 - 2007 (the period 1985 - 2003 was pretty stable).
Now, a recent study in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society finds that not
only is the Arctic warming eight times faster than the rest of the planet, but failure to account for temperature gaps has led
global datasets to underestimate the rise of temperatures worldwide.
Shown are data from the
Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN)
dataset and output from the two GISS model experiments (SST
only in middle panel and SST+D ust in bottom panel).
Science is based on physical data and the physical data provided by Roy Spencer with the UAH MSU
global temperature
dataset differs
only slightly from the RSS MSU temperature
dataset strictly from the computational process used.
Until there is a firm prediction about when this human caused
global warming will end the current
global cooling of 0.2 °C / century as depicted on the HadCRUT3
global temperature
dataset since 2002; the
only ones who can be called deniers are those who deny the world of the truth about
global temperatures.
We can
only assume the article is referring to the completion of work to update the HadCRUT4
global temperature
dataset compiled by ourselves and the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit.
(I regret BEST land -
only is the
only dataset I have easy access to that is long enough in duration to show three or more successive periods of the supposed 60 year or longer «waves»; however, on all of the
datasets longer than 120 years, the claimed waves degenerate, and the appearance of acceleration for pretty much any proposed period longer than 50 years persists across all
global datasets.)
To expand the coverage of
global gridded reanalyses, the 20th Century Reanalysis Project is an effort led by PSD and the CIRES at the University of Colorado to produce a reanalysis
dataset spanning the entire twentieth century, assimilating
only surface observations of synoptic pressure, monthly sea surface temperature and sea ice distribution.
In fact amongst
datasets with
global coverage at least reaching to 2005, there is
only one
dataset which has 1998 in its top 2 and this record does not include 2009 or 2010.
Unlike other passport indexes, which
only count countries as destinations, the Henley Passport Index includes both countries and territories in its
dataset, making for a more robust and holistic view of
global passport power.