NASA | Temperature Data: 1880-2011

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The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880.The finding sustains a trend that has seen the 21st century experience nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record. NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York released an analysis of how temperatures around the globe in 2011 compared to the average global temperature from the mid-20th century. The comparison shows how Earth continues to experience higher temperatures than several decades ago. The average temperature around the globe in 2011 was 0.92 degrees F (0.51 C) higher than the mid-20th century baseline.

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[checkyoursources]

"I re-checked the IPCC 1990 Summary for Policy Makers and confirmed they only predicted +0.57 C above 1990 temperature (+0.25 C) based on the "business as usual" scenario" -Quote the exact page from the IPCC report and chapter that supports your comment. thanks.

[johndaddyo444]

But then, the American Midwest is once again getting snow from "September to April". One of the companies I work with was closed (snow day in Denver) today, April 9, 2013.

[johndaddyo444]

Of course, 2011 dropped to just +0.13 C (revised recently to +0.16 C) and 2012 was also +0.16 C. The first quarter of 2013 is up all the way to +0.29 C (avg of +0.51, +0.18, and +0.18 C for Jan, Feb, Mar 2013 respectively). So it may only take a few more months to get back to "record high" temperature anomalies. LOL

[johndaddyo444]

Good news, checkyoursources - you were right to question the +1.6 C statistic. I re-checked the IPCC 1990 Summary for Policy Makers and confirmed they only predicted +0.57 C above 1990 temperature (+0.25 C) based on the "business as usual" scenario. Therefore, the actual +0.47 C was fully 57% of the +0.82 C predicted (not the 10% that I'd argued). The +0.67 C comes from +1 C by 2025 (pg 22, or rather, XXII) interpolated 20/35 x 1 = 0.57). The +0.25 C comes from HadCRUT3vgl.txt (0.248 C for 1990)

[johndaddyo444]

A Creationist is a person who believes the biblical book of Genesis is an accurate account of how God created everything - the universe, the solar system, the planets, the Earth, and every living thing in the Earth.

[TheStringficelle]

What is a creationist ?

[johndaddyo444]

As you know, Stein & Limbaugh are not scientists - nor does "Expelled" present scientific arguments. However, there is a sequence in "Expelled" that is thought provoking. It is the animation which depicts the workings inside a cell (the manufacture of proteins). It bothers me that evolution has no explanation for how a one-billion bit computer code (found in most human cells) could write itself into existence.

[HorseCents]

Yes, I have long been a follower of Ben Stein, Rush Limbaugh and other renowned scientists for years. It is from them that I stay on the cutting edge of knowledge. See my Peak Oil video, for example.

God bless.

[checkyoursources]

Quote the page and data from 1990 IPCC that stated. "2010 temperature to be +1.6 C over 20thC baseline (1961 - 1990)." p.s. What the IPCC states: Since IPCC’s first report in 1990, assessed projections have suggested global average temperature increases between about 0.15°C and 0.3°C per decade for 1990 to 2005.