16 September 2009
If a Picture Paints A Thousand Words- Then Look at 3
Posted by Dan Satterfield
The 1997-1998 El Nono was the strongest on record. The combination of this, and rising greenhouse gases made it the warmest year on record.
NASA GISS has the Summer global temp. data online now. August 2009 was the Second warmest on record globally. The Northern Hemisphere meteorological summer of 2009 was the third warmest on record. Only 1998 was warmer. The reason 1998 was so warm is easily explained. The Pacific ocean was incredibly warm that year. The reason? The greatest El Nino event on record.
August Temp. Anomalies. from NCDC (NOAA). The larger the red dot, the warmer it was above average.
That much warm water heated the surface temperature of the entire planet. The warmth over the tropical pacific, caused the jet stream to blow faster from west to east. This, in turn, slowed the rotation of the planet! The days were actually a few thousands of a second longer in 1998!
Some of these junk science sites use 1998 to claim that the planet is cooling. They start their graphs in 1998 and yell global cooling. Doctor Mark Serreze of NOAA’s National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) said it best. Amazing ignorance. I wrote about El Nino earlier in the summer in this space.
One more picture. The great melt in the Arctic. I spotted it on the One Blue Marble blog. It was taken by Michael Nolan a well known environmental speaker.
If a picture paints a thousand words...
Later,
Dan
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.