[Vision2020] NASA GISS: Nov. 2011 Global Avg. Temp. 11th Warmest Since 1880: Arctic Warmth Continues

[Ted Moffett]

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/_tabledata3/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt

NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies has released their analysis of
Nov. 2011 global average surface temperature.  Nov. 2011 was tied with Nov.
2007 as the 11th warmest Nov. since 1880, according to GISS.  Note GISS
indicates all 11 warmest Nov. months have occurred from 1997 through 2011.
Also, note the continued widespread warm anomaly in the Arctic (global
color coded temp. map at website at bottom), expressing what is sometimes
called "polar amplification" from the radiative forcing of increasing
atmospheric CO2 levels from anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, that
was predicted by climate scientists at least as early as 1980: Manabe,
Syukuro, and Ronald J Stouffer, 1980: Sensitivity of a global climate model
to an increase of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. Journal of
Geophysical Research, 85(C10), 5529-5554:
http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/bibliography/results.php?author=1070
http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/bibliography/related_files/sm8001.pdf?PHPSESSID=141ca3d145efd058508e335b76a564ee

Some researchers indicate Nobel Laureate Arrhenius, who some consider the
father of modern climate science, predicted polar amplification over a
century ago.  Climate science researcher Barton Paul Levenson lists the
climate model verifications of anthropogenic climate warming at this
website, among them "polar amplification" with a reference to "Arrhenius
1896": "Are the Models Untestable?"
http://bartonpaullevenson.com/ModelsReliable.html

Arrhenius's 1896 paper on climate sensitivity, the change in global average
surface temperature from a doubling of atmospheric CO2, is here:  "On the
Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air Upon the Temperature of the Ground:"
http://www.rsc.org/images/Arrhenius1896_tcm18-173546.pdf

GISS color coded global map for Nov. 2011 global average surface
temperatures reveals either cold or warm anomalies.  The Arctic clearly has
the warmest most widespread anomaly of any area on Earth:

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/do_nmap_test3.py?year_last=2011&month_last=11&sat=4&sst=1&type=anoms&mean_gen=11&year1=2011&year2=2011&base1=1951&base2=1980&radius=1200&pol=reg

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