{"id":525263,"date":"2010-04-12T22:45:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T02:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/?p=22761"},"modified":"2010-04-12T22:45:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T02:45:54","slug":"bye-bye-global-cooling-myth-hottest-march-and-hottest-jan-feb-march-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/525263","title":{"rendered":"Bye-bye, global cooling myth: Hottest March and hottest Jan-Feb-March on record"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It was the hottest March in both satellite records (UAH<\/a> and RSS<\/a>), and tied for the hottest March on record in the NASA dataset<\/a>.\u00a0 It was the hottest (or tied for hottest) January through March in all three records.<\/p>\n

The record temperatures we\u2019re seeing now are especially impressive because we\u2019ve been in \u201cthe deepest solar minimum in nearly a century<\/a>.\u201d <\/strong>It now appears<\/a> to be over. <\/strong> It\u2019s just hard to stop the march of anthropogenic global warming, well, other than by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, that is.<\/p>\n

NASA’s prediction from last month is standing up:\u00a0 \u201cIt is nearly certain that a new record 12-month global temperature will be set in 2010.\u2033<\/a> Actually, NASA made that prediction back<\/a> in January 2009:<\/p>\n

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Given our expectation of the next El Ni\u00f1o beginning in 2009 or 2010, it still seems likely that a new global temperature record will be set within the next 1-2 years, despite the moderate negative effect of the reduced solar irradiance.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course, there never was any global cooling \u2014 see Must-read AP story: Statisticians reject global cooling; Caldeira \u2014 \u201cTo talk about global cooling at the end of the hottest decade the planet has experienced in many thousands of years is ridiculous.\u201d<\/a> Indeed, the overwhelming\u00a0 majority of the warming went right where scientists had predicted \u2014 into the oceans (see \u201cHow we know global warming is happening<\/a>\u201d):<\/p>\n

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Figure: \u201cTotal Earth Heat Content [anomaly] from 1950 (Murphy et al. 2009). Ocean data taken from Domingues et al 2008<\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

NASA’s draft paper reported:\u00a0 “We conclude that global temperature continued to rise rapidly in the past decade” and “that there has been no reduction in the global warming trend of 0.15-0.20\u00b0C\/decade that began in the late 1970s.”<\/p>\n

NOAA points out that both satellite data sets show about the same amount of warming as the land-based record, \u201cwhich increased at a rate near 0.16\u00b0C\/decade (0.29\u00b0F\/decade) during the same 30-year period\u201d \u2014 once you remove the expected stratospheric cooling from the satellite records (see NOAA discussion here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

After the endless disinformation-based global cooling stories of the past few years, it’s time for the media to start do some serious fact-based global warming stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The top figure is from Roy Spencer\u2019s blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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