After much bandying of
words about global temperature the «debate» headed north to the Arctic.
Not exact matches
I agree with your comments
about the IPCC process and the relatively poor IPCC AR5 discussion on ECS and 1998 - 2012
global mean
temperature variations (I don't use the
word «h *****»).
I am still waiting for
word on what the
global temperature anomaly for the month was, but I suspect it will be fairly close to normal, which means that on average the
temperature of the Earth will come in at ~ 12.0 °C which is 4 °C colder than it will be in 6 months from now, but because of how they talk
about temperature, I will be the only one pointing out the difference between the actual
temperature and the anomaly
temperature.
In other
words, over the past century, the
global average surface
temperature seems to increase at a rate of
about half a degree Celsius for each additional W / m2 of added energy.