Global temperatures are plummeting, and the temperature recorded by AMSU satellite of 251.858K on January 19 was the coldest of any day since at least 2002.
http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/data/amsu_daily_85N85S_ch05.r002.txt
When NASA and NOAA say that temperatures are still rising, what they are really saying is that they are having a harder and harder time hiding the fact that their predictions have failed miserably.
coldest day 2012 florida, coldest day in madison wi in 2012, coldest day of 2012, temperatures on january 19 2012, the lowest teperture of january in 2012
For the next 16 years they will expand the averaging window in order to include 1998
Then the past will be cooled and the present warmed, keeping temperatures looking like on the way up
The UK met office has its 2012 global temperature prediction out
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2011/2012-global-temperature-forecast
Notice they to to use a long term average 1961-1990.
Sea temps have been low for a long time
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sfc_daily.php?plot=ssa&inv=0&t=cur#
so finally this is affecting the middle atmosphere. However this gives no indication on the validity of AGW as you are suggesting.
Andy
http://www.real-science.com/global-warming-logic
Andy
It is not up to Steve to disprove AGW. It is up to Hansen + co to prove CAGW.
BTW – Has Kevin found his “missing heat” yet?
Coldest day in at least 10 years? Meh.
In alarmist terms, it is unprecedented. It is the coldest day ever!!!!!
HUGE! Hugely cold.
Steven, it looks like you’re back on the “blog list” at http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/ . Some anonymous person noted that you weren’t on it since you changed your domain. The tipster thought it might have something to do with the animated icon that appears on the side of tabs. I like it, but…? It does catch the eye, and I also liked the old days icon. And I’m very very glad you returned to the old days Real Science look with Toto and all.
Anyway, I highly recommend Tom Nelson’s blog to all: it’s kind of like a user-friendly anti-AGW hub. And Real Science is in the blog list now, so you easily click from there to here. Tom works real hard, and he’s reading all the cgate2 emails. So he works real hard, and I think it’s kind of a shame when we see “O Comments” down the line for his entries. So I hope some of us will try to throw in a comment for him as well every once in a while.
One other thing, here’s the ‘thread’ regarding reinstalling Real Science in the Tom Nelson blog list: http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2012/01/lawrence-solomon-how-u.html
I thought it would be interesting to plot all the years together:
http://reasonabledoubtclimate.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/global-warming-in-january/
Daily data for January 20th is out: 251.838°K
0.02°K colder than the 19th and a new, new record.
Yeah, I’d been watching with expectations and yesterday saw it’d set a record. Didn’t say anything because when I’ve done that in the past (like last month when I saw that we’d set the Dec daily record) there’s been a jinx effect or something and it instantly reverses. Today I saw that it set another record…still wasn’t going to say anything but came over here and saw that it was already posted.
In all honesty, daily values are limited in value because they are more influenced by noise than longer averages, but it looks like 2012 will be looking to have the 2nd lowest January average temperature for the last 10 years. ENSO wasn’t very negative 5 months ago, but got increasingly negative the last half of 2011, so expect similar are decreasing anomalies over the next 4 months.
-Scott
Clearly you confuse weather with climate. By the way: Haven’t you heard that cold and snow are caused by AGW? Are you living in a vacuum?
Nerds
Over two dozen double record days have occurred in the United States primarily in Utah, Nevada, Florida and Hawaii. That is, it was both the hottest and coldest on record for that particular day. Well, were these days hotter or colder than normal? It could have been colder than normal most of the day then suddenly warmed up a lot. Basically, a colder day. Or it could have been hot most of the day then got very cold for the last few minutes or hour in the same day. Basically a hotter day. See what I mean? Single high or low point temperature readings are somewhat worthless in truthfully telling one if the entire day was colder or warmer than normal. What is needed: Freezing Degree Days and Heating Degree Day like analysis. This quantifies the warmness or coolness for the entire day and shows if that day was colder or warmer than normal. Not having done this, single point temperatures, hotter or colder, are somewhat
worthless in this case without the lower temperature range being shown also. After all, in some cases, the lower temperature ranges may be diverging downward at the same time.