Not exact matches
BTW, aside from
averages, I notice that the seasonal temperature curve seems to have been
pushed forward in time a few weeks, with it statying
warmer or colder longer in the year.
If natural cooling influences are trying to
push the
average down, man - made
warming must be preventing the drop.
Dana, I think you are
pushing in the right direction with this; heat content is a much more direct measure of the underlying changes to the climate system than
average air temperatures and climate science communicators should make heat content their first response to the suggestion that global
warming is something that waxes and (allegedly, recently) wanes.
But the data released today confirm that human - induced global
warming is
pushing temperatures higher at an alarming rate: 2014 was the previous record holder for global
average surface temperature, clocking in at 0.57 °C above the 1960 to 1990
average, but last year was 0.75 °C above that
average.
Currently, human
warming by Greenhouse gasses has
pushed global
average surface temperatures into a range about 1 degree Celsius hotter than the 1880s.
The north pole gets no sunlight until March, but an influx of
warm air has
pushed temperatures in Siberia up by as much as 35C above historical
averages this month.