[Vision2020] NOAA: October 2008 Global Land Temperature Warmest On Record Since 1880s

[Ted Moffett]

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20081118_octobertemps.html

Separately, the global land surface temperature was 50.72 degrees F — 2.02
degrees F above the 20th century mean of 48.7 degrees F, ranking as the
warmest October on record. Much of the unusual warmth occurred over Asia,
Australia, and Eastern Europe. ---------------------------------
And to enlighten and or remind anyone who might be reading this post, solar
forcing is unlikely to be the cause of these warming global temperature
trends, as expertly analyzed in the following scientific paper, that
references spacecraft data on solar output, as was suggested is required to
investigate this question, yet was never acknowledged on this list after I
presented the very data requested:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7108/abs/nature05072.html
 Review

*Nature* *443*, 161-166 (14 September 2006) | doi:10.1038/nature05072
Variations in solar luminosity and their effect on the Earth's climate

P. Foukal1<http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7108/abs/nature05072.html#a1>,
C. Fröhlich2<http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7108/abs/nature05072.html#a2>,
H. Spruit3<http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7108/abs/nature05072.html#a3>and
T. M. L. Wigley
4 <http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7108/abs/nature05072.html#a4>
 Abstract

Variations in the Sun's total energy output (luminosity) are caused by
changing dark (sunspot) and bright structures on the solar disk during the
11-year sunspot cycle. The variations measured from spacecraft since 1978
are too small to have contributed appreciably to accelerated global warming
over the past 30 years. In this Review, we show that detailed analysis of
these small output variations has greatly advanced our understanding of
solar luminosity change, and this new understanding indicates that
brightening of the Sun is unlikely to have had a significant influence on
global warming since the seventeenth century. Additional climate forcing by
changes in the Sun's output of ultraviolet light, and of magnetized plasmas,
cannot be ruled out. The suggested mechanisms are, however, too complex to
evaluate meaningfully at present.
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