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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• global
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• temperature
• anomaly
• warming
• climate change
• world
• land surface
• temperature anomaly
• global analysis
• land warming

[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]

@westnileraven 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.

[VIPLeague]

Why the 1C degree difference makes it so red. 1C is not a big deal at all.

[warty2200]

politicizing AGW = fail.

The focus should have been on efficiency, not belief.

[vitto]

this can be a hoax..since anybody can release a vid with some animations.

[arifsaha]

well, @greiner3, the actual effect is debatable. We had on Earth the Eocene period, 56 - 34 millions years ago, where temperatures at the poles are more than 10C above today average and at equator about 5C above today. Apparently it was also the greenest period of Earth, with forests spreading from pole to pole. Search in Wikipedia about "Eocene" and for "65_Myr_Climate_Change.png".

[arifsaha]

@saxsux, I believe the "anomaly" here is difference of the temperature of a certain spot at certain time to the normal / average temperature at the same spot overtime. So there is no need to average temperature over multiple locations to calculate the anomaly.

[terrorista31]

We are Fucked!

[greiner3]

Holy crap Batman; this means that within the next couple of decades all the southern folk will need to migrate north because it will be too hot and too dry for them to live.

[xZaCloudx]

@xZaCloudx *since I was a child. - I'm 29, btw. No previous generations have cited this drastic of a change in temperature ranges around here.

70-75 F was normal summer temperatures, with 80 F considered a rare heat-wave when I was 8. Now, it's considered a cool day with highs more routinely being in the high 90s, low 100s.

And the nights would normally be in the low-to-mid 60s, when now it's been in the low 50s. In the exact same area.

I sunbathed yesterday and bundled up today. Not right.

[xZaCloudx]

Even if you look and say, "Oh, the average temperature only rose a little, it's no cause for concern." Keep in mind, that's average temperature. With the thinning of the ozone layer, in addition to hotter days, we're also getting COLDER NIGHTS.

The temperature variance between night and day has widened by TENS of degrees just since I was a child in my area.

And a mere two decades ago, seasons changed gradually, when now they're whip-lashing between hot days and cold days, instead of just cool.