http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/best/from:2001.75/plot/best/from:2001.75/trend
CO2 rose at an unprecedented record rate over the last decade, and temperatures went down. By contrast, from 1910 to 1940 temperatures rose very fast while CO2 hardly increased at all.
O/T I have filed a complaint with our Press Complaints Commission over here about the Guardian’s interview with our Katharine when she claimed Texas winters were getting warmer.
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/katharine-says-winters-are-getting-warmer-in-lubbock/
Probably won’t get anywhere, but should stir things up a bit!!
The BEST data actually shows a notable decline in temperature from 2006:
http://reasonabledoubtclimate.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/best-shows-global-warming-has-stopped/
BEST actually proves the skeptic position, despite what Andy Revkin says.
I noticed today that AMSU now reports lowest seasonal lower trop temp in ten years finally dipping beneath 2008 ! Gonna be a cold winter. At what point will AGW ever be falsified?
When hell freezes over!!
For some that may be before Christmas!
That may be before Halloween.
Why do people consistently ignore the real CO2 chemical bottle data (a la E Beck’s collection of data)?
Why do they believe the CO2 data from cherry-picked false graphs?
There was a peak in CO2 above 440 ppm in the 1940s. Clear as day.
The idea that CO2 was consistently low for all of the 1800s until 1950 is just plain stupid. With the many ways climate behaves, one thing it does not do is remain constant, in anything.
Anyone know why BEST has the giant spike in temperatures right at the end like that?
-Scott
Scott,
It’s in the original data (see credits page if you want to check) but there is a huge uncertainty associated with the last two samples. I’m wondering if I should give access to the uncertainty data too…
Cheers
Paul
It is Berkeley, they probably slipped in a bit of medicinal that resulted in a JAG in the record!
Steven,
I’m also wondering if I should force a minimum range for ‘trend’! I’m sorry, but I really don’t think 10 year trends prove anything. OK, so it’s stopped warming for 10 years. Maybe we’re at the bottom of one of those cyclical dips (which is what WFT was originally created to investigate) and we’ll return to long term trend soon. Maybe we’re at the peak and we’re heading into a new Ice Age. Maybe the hidden heat will explode out and we’ll be into +2K before we know it. Take your pick according to your preconceptions – but be sure that a 10 year trend line doesn’t inform it either way.
Paul
I think it is pretty clear that we are not experiencing catastrophic warming.
Hi Paul, its nice to see you out and about. A ten year trend isn’t about what something proves, its about what it disproves. We’ve increased atmospheric CO2 by about 40ppm in the last decade or so.
IR is constantly outgoing from the earth. In a very short time, we increased the atmospheric CO2 by about 10%, but the temps, didn’t move. So, either we’ve saturated our atmosphere with GHG’s so much the logarithmic increase is close to nil, or something else is driving the climate.
Despite the fact that because of the saturation effect CO2 is not a major force in global mean temperatures, the Best data does perhaps provide some limited evidence that CO2 causes mean global temperature to fall not rise. It is a relatively simple matter to conclusively prove that greenhouse gasses cause global cooling not global warming, and quite a bit of it at that. Why do climate sceptic sites never seem capable of presenting the obvious truth?