2016 Record Warm Surface Temperatures: The Party’s Over!

Posted: August 17, 2017 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

THE ~20 year global warming “pause/hiatus” update…

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

Pat Michaels writes:

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As expected, and thanks to the big 2015-6 El Niño, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced that 2016 is the warmest year in their 150-year long global surface temperature record. They didn’t mention that there are signs that global average temperatures are headed back to pre-El Niño values, which may put them near the range of the long “pause” in warming beginning in 1997 that ended with the recent El Niño.

There are several sources showing this. Here’s the satellite data from the University of Alabama-Huntsville through last month:

Temperatures have fallen to within approximately 0.15⁰C of the average since the end of the last (1998) big El Niño and the beginning of the recent one. These are “bulk” data for the lower atmosphere.

You can see similar behavior in the surface record from the University of East Anglia:

In this…

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