Not exact matches
Relatively (it's always relative changes that are most
relevant to breaking the climate
averages) cool waters from the Caribbean have over recent weeks and months increasingly spread to the northeast, across the Atlantic Gulf Stream, creating a negative
temperature anomaly around the islands of the Azores and reaching further to the British Isles and the North Sea, where sea water is low due to the very cold December.
The focus on
anomalys has distracted from the most
relevant metric, Global Annual
Average Temperature, which has been increasing every year for the last 10 and longer, meaning no «Plateau»..
Although the corrected Supplementary Information repeats the statement (in Figure S1) «(h): Ensemble -
average temperature anomalies (relative to 1850) for each single - forcing simulation», the current version of Figure S1 at the
relevant GISS webpage states «(h): Ensemble -
average temperature anomalies (relative to 1850 — 59) for each single - forcing simulation».
Following Lerchl [18], we also calculated a
temperature anomaly series, by subtracting from each observed monthly
temperature the
relevant monthly
average temperature, calculated for each of the 12 months of the year across the 30 years.