http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091208-709250.html
"Despite 1998 being the warmest individual year, the last 10 years have
clearly been the warmest period in the 160-year record of global surface
temperature maintained jointly by the Met Office Hadley Centre and the
Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia," the statement from
the U.K.'s national weather service said.
The U.K. data are derived from a rolling average of 10 years in the 2000 to
2009 period.
Independent analyses made by the U.S. National Climatic Data Center, or
NCDC, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Goddard
Institute for Space Studies, or GISS, show similar results, the statement
said.
"These figures highlight that the world continues to see global temperature
rise, most of which is due to increasing emissions of greenhouse gases into
the atmosphere, and clearly shows that the argument that global warming has
stopped is flawed," the Met Office said.
The U.K. measurements come from a global average temperature record made up
of land-surface and sea-surface air temperatures. The Met Office compiles
the data from the sea measurements, and the Climatic Research Unit at the
University of East Anglia compiles the data from the land measurements.
The Met Office's announcement follows controversy over leaked emails from
the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit which have shaken
climate science. Climate skeptics have said the emails show that key data
have been manipulated to strengthen the argument for climate change being
man-made.
The Climatic Research Unit's data are important as they were one of the
global temperature records that have underpinned the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change's assessment reports and numerous scientific studies.
However, a spokesman for the Met Office said the data used to show this
decade was the warmest on instrumental record were reliable.
"We're 100% confident that the data is reliable and it's corroborated by two
independent data sets in the U.S. which show similar warming," Met Office
spokesman Dave Britton said.
In a separate announcement, the World Meteorological Organization said that
2009 is likely to rank in the top 10 warmest years on record since the
beginning of instrumental climate records in 1850.
According to data sources compiled by the WMO, the global combined sea- and
land-surface air temperature for January to October 2009 is estimated at
0.44 degrees Celsius above the 1961 to 1990 annual average of 14.0 degrees
Celsius.
The WMO also said that this decade was warmer than the 1980s and 1990s.
The WMO global temperature analysis is based on the combined dataset
maintained by the Met Office's Hadley Centre and the University of East
Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, the U.S.'s NCDC at the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration and GISS, which is operated by NASA.
Separately, the Met Office also released station temperature records for
over 1,500 stations that make up the global land-surface temperature record,
as part of a policy of putting as much of the information as possible into
the public domain.
-By Selina Williams, Dow Jones Newswires; +44 207 842 9262;
selina....@dowjones.com
Real data or cooked data?
Hard to differentiate between the two anymore since ClimateGate exposed
manmade gw/cc as the most massive, money grabbing hoax in history.
So you were doing okay analyzing hard-core scientific climate data before
the climategate thing happened??
LOL! got to love how all the rightards are suddenly so up to date on climate
science..;P)
*snicker*
Me? Personally?
Nah...I don't pay any attention to the manmade gw/cc silliness.
But since your Messiah wants to tax the bejesus out of us with his Cap
and Tax bill, I'm glad that ClimateGate exposed manmade gw/cc as a
massive, money grabbing *H-O-A-X*!!!
>
> LOL! got to love how all the rightards are suddenly so up to date on climate
> science..;P)
Nah. Again - manmade gw/cc was always a silly idea. And ClimateGate
confirmed it!!!
>
> *snicker*
;^D
But you just said you found it "hard to differentiate anymore" between
various form of data.
That clearly indicates that you used to differentiate before "climategate"
Fuck me, you are one stupid little cunt, arent you?
> But since your Messiah wants to tax the bejesus out of us with his Cap and
> Tax bill, I'm glad that ClimateGate exposed manmade gw/cc as a massive,
> money grabbing *H-O-A-X*!!!
Sadly for you, it hasnt.
*snicker*
>>
>> LOL! got to love how all the rightards are suddenly so up to date on
>> climate science..;P)
>
> Nah. Again - manmade gw/cc was always a silly idea.
But hey, you just said you "dont pay attention" to climate science.
Now once again you make claims about validity or otherwise of certain data.
Do you see how much of garden variety moron your words make you appear?