On Apr 23, 7:19 am, (Doug Bashford) wrote:
in rec.radio.shortwave, David said about:
( OT) Global Warming, a primer . .

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:30:14 +0000 (UTC), "Larry"
wrote:

It's going to be difficult for those people to explain the very real
fact that the earth has been measurably cooling for the last eight
years, in spite of an increase in CO2 levels.
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/env...2006_warm.html

nasa.gov ???
That says:

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2006 Was Earth's Fifth Warmest Year in the past century

02.08.07

Graphic listing the top five warmest years recorded Climatologists at
the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City
have found that 2006 was the fifth warmest year in the past century.

Image right:
The five warmest years since
the late 1880s, according to NASA scientists,
are in descending order
2005,
1998,
2002,
2003 and
2006.
Credit: NASA


Rank of the Years
Year Temp C Anomaly Z score
2005 14.62 0.653 2.77
1998 14.56 0.593 2.51
2002 14.56 0.593 2.51
2003 14.54 0.573 2.43
2006 14.54 0.573 2.43
2004 14.48 0.513 2.17
2001 14.47 0.503 2.13
1997 14.39 0.423 1.79
1995 14.38 0.413 1.75
1990 14.37 0.403 1.71
1991 14.35 0.383 1.62
2000 14.33 0.363 1.54
1999 14.32 0.353 1.50
MEAN 13.967 0.000 0.00
1893 13.68 -0.287 -1.21
1913 13.68 -0.287 -1.21
1918 13.68 -0.287 -1.21
1894 13.67 -0.297 -1.26
1904 13.66 -0.307 -1.30
1908 13.66 -0.307 -1.30
1910 13.66 -0.307 -1.30
1911 13.66 -0.307 -1.30
1912 13.66 -0.307 -1.30
1887 13.65 -0.317 -1.34
1909 13.64 -0.327 -1.38
1890 13.63 -0.337 -1.43
1907 13.61 -0.357 -1.51
1917 13.60 -0.367 -1.55

These globally averaged temperature data come from NASA:
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ta...LB.Ts+dSST.txt
They represent the results of tens of millions of readings
taken at thousands of land stations and ships around the globe
over the last 128 years. Yes, the land data are corrected for
the urban heat island effect. The sea data do not need to be.
There are few urban centers in the sea.

The last 127 yearly means of these data are graphed at:
http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/Glob...ean%20Temp.jpg




Other groups that study climate change also rank these years as among
the warmest, though the exact rankings vary depending upon details of
the analyses. Results differ especially in regions of sparse
measurements, where scientists use alternative methods of estimating
temperature change.

Goddard Institute researchers used temperature data from weather
stations on land, satellite measurements of sea surface temperature
since 1982 and data from ships for earlier years.
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Thanks David!

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