Atmospheric Residency & Oomph (part 1)
A quick look at the HADCRUT5 global mean annual temperature anomaly and human emissions over the last 170 years
So far I’ve been focusing on my home-spun UK34 data series obtained from a handy Met Office resource, which may be found here. In the previous article we noted how well just 34 UK stations tracked the CRUTEM5 state-of-the-art northern hemisphere land surface temperature anomaly, revealing that the crew at CRU have somehow artificially cooled the period 1932 – 1961 (presumably to make the rate of post-WWII warming look big and beefy). Today I fancied going really big and globally bold and pulling down the HADCRUT5 global land and sea surface temperature anomaly and plotting this against global human CO2 emissions:
The scatterplot yields a lovely red snake of data points that indicate the global temperature has been rising along with human CO2 emission. Whether temperature has been rising as a result of CO2 emissions or something else is a rather controversial matter, and one in which viable alternative theories and voices have been crushed, humiliated or silenced. This alone should make…
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