[Vision2020] Goddard Institute for Space Studies: Sept. 2011 Ninth Warmest Since 1880: Arctic Warmth Continues

[Ted Moffett]

Goddard Institute for Space Studies ranked Sept. 2011 monthly global average
temperature as the ninth warmest since 1880.  Consider that all nine warmest
Sept. months for global average temperature have occurred from 2002 through
2011, according to GISS:

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

Considering the UI American Indian Studies program Distinguished American
Indian Speakers Series.lecture tonight at the U of I College of
Law courtroom, featuring scholar Daniel Wildcat, and his Daily News comments
appearing today about the removal of Arctic native people from their
homeland, in part due to anthropogenic climate change that is now occurring
in the Arctic, the following GISS color coded global map of Sept. 2011
average global surface temperature is scientific backing for his comments.

The Arctic continues to express the greatest warming temperature, compared
to average for each area, on the planet:

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/do_nmap.py?year_last=2011&month_last=09&sat=4&sst=1&type=anoms&mean_gen=09&year1=2011&year2=2011&base1=1951&base2=1980&radius=1200&pol=reg

The anomalous warmth in the polar regions was predicted by climate
scientists over thirty years ago, as a response to increasing atmospheric
CO2
level from anthropogenic emissions, 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.

http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/bibliography/results.php?author=1070
http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/bibliography/related_files/sm8001.pdf?PHPSESSID=141ca3d145efd058508e335b76a564ee
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