Japan’s ‘Cool Hand Luke’ moment for surface temperature

Watts Up With That? ^ | January 31, 2013 | Anthony Watts

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

At NASA’s Climate 365, there is an interesting story posted with this statement and a graph:

Some say scientists can’t agree on Earth’s temperature changes

Each year, four international science institutions compile temperature data from thousands of stations around the world and make independent judgments about whether the year was warmer or cooler than average. “The official records vary slightly because of subtle differences in the way we analyze the data,” said Reto Ruedy, climate scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “But they also agree extraordinarily well.”

All four records show peaks and valleys in sync with each other. All show rapid warming in the past few decades. All show the last decade has been the warmest on record.

In sync? Weellll, not quite. Japan apparently hasn’t ‘got their mind right‘ yet as the graph shows:

Here is where it gets interesting. Note the purple line after the year 2000.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Into the article:

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JMA estimates global temperature anomalies using data combined not only over land but also over ocean areas.

[Nuc 1.1]

Looks like the sine curve of the control parameter around set point to me. What utter nonsense. A data window so small as to be useless.

[blam]

Ernest, It's just A Failure To Communicate

[Jack Hydrazine]

In related news...

Arctic Ice Growth Shatters Previous Records
http://iceagenow.info/2013/01/arctic-ice-growth-shatters-previous-records/

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well the warm spots must be somewhere else now.

[Cyber Liberty]

WUWT is a great website, I could spend hours there and on the links from there.

[Jack Hydrazine]

At the link I posted it says this.

Meanwhile, Andy Revkin describes the record growth as “record melt.” (See Obama and the Environment: What He Can Do – Expert Advice – MensJournal.com)

“It only makes sense that ice would melt when the temperature is -30C,” says Goddard.
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/record-arctic-ice-growth-in-2012-2013/

Like I have said many times before the Left sums it up with the saying I made up for them.

Warm globally, cool locally!

[justa-hairyape]

The only Global Warming occurring near Japan is occurring north of Japan in Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. Amazing video footage in the article below. You can control the 360 degree video camera angle during a flyover. Whats up with 4 more or less simultaneous eruptions ?

Four at Once: Volcano Quartet Erupts on Kamchatka

[cuban leaf]

Well, now I see why they were worried about global cooling back in the 1970 time frame. ;-)

[jongaltsr]

I do not need your suggested reading list.

Take me off your buddy list NOW>>>>>>>>>>>>>

[Marine_Uncle]

From the article heading: "Some say scientists can’t agree on Earth’s temperature changes"
Oh. Ok.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the ping.