[Vision2020] Goddard Institute for Space Studies: April 2011 Global Temperature Fourth Warmest Since 1880

[Ted Moffett]

As the color/temperature global map at GISS website below reveals, the
greatest anomalous warmth on Earth continued in April 2011 to cover
areas of the Arctic, as predicted decades ago by climate scientists
modeling the impacts of increasing atmospheric CO2, assuming what is
sometimes called polar amplification (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. available in full (26 pages pdf) free
here: http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/bibliography/related_files/sm8001.pdf
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory lists 162 publications from 1955
through 2007 (!!!!) by climate scientist Manabe here:
http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/bibliography/results.php?author=1070

GISS color/temperature global map April 2011 average surface temperature:

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/do_nmap.py?year_last=2011&month_last=04&sat=4&sst=1&type=anoms&mean_gen=04&year1=2011&year2=2011&base1=1951&base2=1980&radius=1200&pol=reg

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April 2011 tied with 2002 for the fourth warmest monthly April global
average surface temperature since 1880, behind 2010, the warmest
April, 2007 second, 2005 third, according to Gisstemp data from 1880
to 2011, if I read the data correctly:

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt
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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett