[Vision2020] NASA GISS Global Average Temp. Aug. 2011: 4th Warmest Since 1880

[Ted Moffett]

Color coded global Aug. 2011 temperature map:

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/do_nmap.py?year_last=2011&month_last=08&sat=4&sst=1&type=anoms&mean_gen=08&year1=2011&year2=2011&base1=1951&base2=1980&radius=1200&pol=reg

Global temperature data since 1880:

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt
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Note the continued anomalous warmth in the Arctic, and Antarctic
regions, and also, in Texas, which saw the warmest summer in the
instrumental record for any US state (
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2011/20110908_auguststats.html )
along with record setting fires this summer season.

The anomalous warmth in the polar regions was predicted by climate
scientists decades 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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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett