Land Temperature Anomaly Video

For more information about this study visit http://berkeleyearth.org. Berkeley Earth video representation of the land surface temperature anomaly, 1800 to the present. The map of the world shows the temperature anomaly by location over time. The chart at the bottom, shows the global land-surface temperature anomaly. The Berkeley Earth analysis shows 0.911 degrees Centigrade of land warming (+/- 0.042 C) since the 1950s.

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[Antithropocentric]

Of course, Fox & the Kochs are trying to spin this study as "flawed," by selectively quoting the 2 or 3 percent of climatologists who are hard-line skeptics, like Judith Curry.

It's an insult to scientists to have their work second-guessed by liars, when they've been right all along.

It will probably take some non-scientist like Rush Limbaugh finally admitting that AGW is real for most Republicans to face reality. That may never happen unless the ocean floods his Florida mansion complex.

[saxsux]

Because the temperatures in different places can vary quite dramatically (imagine how different the readings from a temperature station atop a mountain and one in a valley would be, or one in Europe and one in the Sahara desert) it's difficult to make comparisons if you talk in terms of absolute temperature.

Instead, scientists work out an area's average temperature and compare their readings to it. Anomaly is the difference between the average temperature and actual measurents.

[Sky Button]

Question: the average temperature used here is based on the average from what timeframe?

[Amat Al-Whab]

thank you

[sodalitia]

One thing I don't understand: Why there is no anomalies below 0 on Antarctica on 2008 and 2009? How it is possible? I must misread the data. If colors on the map represents the same temperature as those on the scale, that means that we dont have Ice anywhere. Perhaps its just my interpretation...or somebody wants to look map more dramatic.

[baibaiway]

Rev 16:8-9

[David Spencer]

boring

[mafarmerga]

Again I ask. Have you examined the Berkeley Earth website or read any of their papers? The answers to your questions are carefully explained by them and the nonsense that global warming is due to solar activity is very clearly shown NOT to be the case. Before raising more irrelevent points please do some homework first. your opinions seem very uninformed.

[mafarmerga]

Have your bothered to even look at the Berkeley Earth site or the data they present? They have conclusively ruled out all the BS you keep spreading. Get your head out of your ...sand.

Wake up before it is too late to do anything about this.

[mafarmerga]

Damn. We, our children, grandchildren, and great-grand children are all screwed. Even if we start in earnest today it will take 100+ years to get things back to normal. And we have shown NO sign of reversing our behavior.

We are all screwed.

[TheFairKnight]

Muller became believer, Fritz Vahrenholt became skeptic, its all part of the scientific process. And is precisely for this reason that the science is far from "settled", and maybe it would be reckless to destroy the world economy and give up our liberties before it is.

[shogu666]

Do you see any "green" expanding ??

All i can see if deforestation and record of species extinction in numbers only compared to those of huge global catastrophes.

Capitalism need constant growth and destruction of nature of course they will tell its not human fault otherwise if we stop doing suicidal things economy as we know it will crash.