It’s almost enjoyable to watch the “no warming for 17 years” crowd predictably fail to update their priors. Meanwhile let’s hope that “no global warming since 2016” will hold for a ...
http://planet3.org/2016/04/25/year-to-date-far-warmer-than-any-previous-year/
Only a month ago – this changes slowly so it’s pretty much what is happening now. Yes, as far as I understand, it is indeed a highly unusual configuration.
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Hiatus? What hiatus? August 2014 was the warmest August on record. Three of the last 12 months have been the warmest for that calendar month, but one of them (November) was in 2013.
http://planet3.org/2014/09/18/2014-hottest-year-ever-in-the-running/
via Scientific American
Improvements in characterizing global interannual variation and trend in global heat flux. Yes there probably is an upward trend. There is substantial uncertainty in the vertical axis offset, t...
http://planet3.org/2014/08/10/net-global-radiative-imbalance/
A slightly more complicated graph following up on the previous one showing how much carbon is left to burn , showing that even that one is unreasonably optimistic. The curve plots a reasonable ...
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Tom Yulsman in Discover Magazine : > It’s too soon to tell whether this is just a flash in the pan or > the start of a really big melt year. There are examples in ...
http://planet3.org/2014/06/21/uh-oh-greenland-surface-melting-off-to-a-quick-start/
via Kevin Trenberth It’s early days and it may not pan out, but we’re still on track for a Super-ENSO. The image (Slide 43 in this briefing ) shows the evolution of the equatorial temper...
(Wandered across my Facebook stream with image credit “Book Liberation Movement”, whoever or whatever that is. But whatever they believe, this particular claim, while not literally true in te...
From an interesting article in the National Journal ; go read it.
http://planet3.org/2014/04/23/mentions-of-earth-day-in-us-congress-by-party/
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via pewresearch.org
See also this internet classic .