[Vision2020] NOAA:Temperature Anomalies Jan. 2007

[Ted Moffett]

Don et. al.

Recent records indicate that this past January was globally the warmest on
record:

*GLOBAL AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR JANUARY HIGHEST ON RECORD, U.S. TEMPERATURE
NEAR AVERAGE FOR MONTH*

NOAA apparently thought this information important enough to place on the
main load page for their web site:
http://www.noaa.org

Ted Moffett

On 2/19/07, Don Coombs <mushroom at moscow.com> wrote:

> Hi Ted--
>
> Thanks for posting the NOAA graphic. It's pretty
> straightforward, and I understand that the biggest
> circles represent places where the average temp this
> past January was 5 or more degrees C (or 9 or more
> degrees F) different from the average of the previous
> 30 Januaries.
>
> Before I say anything critical, you should know that I
> don't see how there can be much doubt that global
> warming exists and that we should try to deal with it.
>
> If you are going to say that temperatures were more
> varied than usual last January, though, it would help
> us to know how much they usually varied. Maybe, for
> example, there was a January in 1980 which would also
> have yielded a graphic with lots of big circles.
>
> It's not your responsibility to offer up a measure of
> variability; I'm just saying that such a measure would
> be useful.
>
> Another thought: There were lots of those big circles
> on the graph, which suggests that there must have been
> some sites which could have been marked (with even
> bigger circles?) as 6 or 7 degees C different, rather
> than just "5 degrees or more." That would have been
> even more impressive and, I guess, even more of "an
> inconvient truth."
>
> Don Coombs
>
> The graph came from:
>
> >
> http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007/images/jan2007-global-temp-anomalies.jpg
>
>
>
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