With all the fuss in the media about the global temperature, someone sent me the link below which takes you to a very interesting website which shows measurements of global temperatures calculated by averaging readings from thousands of weather stations around the world. Of course I have no way of verifying the accuracy of these measurements, and I do not know how they are spread across the globe, but they do represent how these measurements have changed since the project began.
There is no way of accurately measuring the global temperature, as it varies from place to place and minute by minute, so even the best scientists can only measure the change in temperature.
Link: Temperature.Global
Blogs are not a good source of science to attempt to disprove the science of climate. The IPPC has 14,000 peices of litterature weaving together into a conslusion of humans are warming the climate and it is bad. Less bad if we change fast and worse if we are slow.. Temperature records are taken quite seriously with a great deal of study and support behind them based in peer reviewed science.
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The warming trend is the same in rural and urban areas, measured by thermometers and satellites, and by natural thermometers.
It's important to understand one thing above all: the vast majority of climate change denialism does not occur in the world of science, but on the internet. Specifically in the blog-world: anyone can blog or have a social media account and say whatever they want to say. And they do. We all saw plenty of that during the Covid-19 pandemic, seemingly offering an open invitation to step up and proclaim, "I know better than all those scientists!"
The "world of science" includes the internet. In fact some of the best websites to understand the climate issue is on the internet, as the mainstream media is completely given over to one-sided propaganda. The so-called mainstream made big errors dealing with COVID. So much that many will find it hard to trust them again.
DeleteCovid was not understood at first, and then as the information improved, the science was communicated as best as they could to the public. Some of the blogs were completely erroneous in the information they presented. Doing their very best to distort the truth.
DeleteBack to information about temperature records. I can provide information that is quite valid about our temperature on earth. Science would not be making this claim without valid information behind it.
This is from the same article as above. There have been attempts to show temperature data is unreliable. This accusation was taken seriously and a study was presented with the conclusions below. The doubters points toward unreliability did not pan out.
ReplyDeleteTheir eventual conclusions, after much hard analytical toil, were as follows:
1) The accuracy of the land surface temperature record was confirmed;
2) The BEST study used more data than previous studies but came to essentially the same conclusion;
3) The influence of the urban stations on the global record is very small and, if present at all, is biased on the cool side.
Muller commented: “I was not expecting this, but as a scientist, I feel it is my duty to let the evidence change my mind.” On that, certain parts of the blogosphere went into a state of meltdown. The lesson to be learned from such goings on is, “be careful what you wish for”. Presuming that improving temperature records will remove or significantly lower the global warming signal is not the wisest of things to do.
The BEST conclusions about the urban heat effect were nicely explained by our late colleague, Andy Skuce, in a post here at Skeptical Science in 2011. Figure 2 shows BEST plotted against several other major global temperature datasets. There may be some disagreement between individual datasets, especially towards the start of the record in the 19th Century, but the trends are all unequivocally the same.
This site is well stocked on writings about temperature data. Based in science. IF you have any curiosity at all about your stands about climate science, I challenge you to take exploration into your fundamental beliefs that I find that are quite flawed compared to reality. Other wise it is not considered science to stop at a solid wall of disbelief.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing warmer is the previous interglacial period. SCience shows us the average temperature during that time. As I posted on one of your previous blogs, We reach the average temperature of the previous interglacial, we are in for 30 feet higher sea level than we are at in the present. In the United States, all of Florida would be under water.
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Observations from both satellites and the Earth’s surface are indisputable — the planet has warmed rapidly over the past 44 years. As far back as 1850, data from weather stations all over the globe make clear the Earth’s average temperature has been rising.
In recent days, as the Earth has reached its highest average temperatures in recorded history, scientists have made a bolder claim: It may well be warmer than any time in the last 125,000 years.
Tracing climatic fluctuations back centuries and millennia is less simple and precise than checking records from satellites or thermometers. It involves poring through everything from ancient diaries to lake bed sediments to tree trunk rings.
But the observations are enough to make paleoclimatologists, who study the Earth’s climate history, confident that the current decade of warming is exceptional relative to any period since before the last ice age, about 125,000 years ago.
Our understanding of conditions so long ago is far less detailed than modern climate data, meaning it’s impossible to prove how hot it might have gotten on any given day so many thousands of years ago. Still, the Earth history gleaned from fossils and ice cores shows the recent heat would have been all but impossible over most of those millennia.
Don't worry, be happy? Remember that song? Sometimes we have to bite the bullet as they say and do the work that is necessary to bring our life boat called earth into a more liveable place. Human co2 emissions need to hit zero, and we also need to take co2 back down out of the atmosphere to a safer level.
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The researchers then looked at which areas would be most affected if the temperature increased to that level. They defined “unprecedented heat” zones as areas where the average temperature throughout the year, counting all seasons, is 84.2 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.
Science Hub reported that 40 years ago, only 12 million people worldwide lived in regions with temperatures surpassing that heat. Today, thanks to the warming we’ve already experienced, about 60 million people are affected.
The study found that by 2100, 2 billion out of the world’s projected population of 9.5 billion will live in areas with an average temperature higher than 84.2 degrees Fahrenheit. The most affected areas will be countries around the equator, noted Science Hub: India, Nigeria, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Pakistan.
Why is this heating worrisome?
The hotter the world gets, the more heat waves, droughts, and wildfires we experience. As Science Hub reported, studies have also linked the rising heat to everything from more contagious diseases to lower labor efficiency and more conflict between people.
“That’s a profound reshaping of the habitability of the surface of the planet, and could lead potentially to the large-scale reorganization of where people live,” study author Tim Lenton, director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, told ScienceAlert.
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