Global Temperature Trend Update—August 2013
Every month University of Alabama in Huntsville climatologists John Christy and Roy Spencer report the latest global temperature trends from satellite data. Below are the newest data updated through August 2013:
Global Temperature Report: August 2013
Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decade
August temperatures (preliminary)
Global composite temp.: +0.16 C (about 0.29 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for August.
Northern Hemisphere: +0.11 C (about 0.20 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for August.
Southern Hemisphere: +0.21 C (about 0.39 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for August.
Tropics: +0.01 C (about 0.02 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for August.
(All temperature anomalies are based on a 30-year average (1981-2010) for the month reported.)
Go here to download the monthly global satellite temperature data since 1978.
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Admit it, Ron. The only reason you post these utterly useless temperature trend articles is because it helps fill your weekly article quota. And don’t deny that you have no quotas. What are you, the police?
I think he just likes the monthly hatefest. With a name like Bailey, he probably has that Irish need to be hated well and often.
He’s probably drunk when he writes the articles anyway, amirite?
Can be way drunk and still cut-and-paste, make a link. Probably has a template for this one, maybe even a bot to scrape data and swap some keywords/dates.
Hey, we don’t need your Wop sneering about drinking, wino.
If he really wanted the hatefest, he wouldn’t have caved to my alt-text demands (Thanks Ron!)
CATASTROPHE!!!!!1!!!11!!!!
You really want to cite the Daily Mail for something not having to do with scantily clad young women?
Ron,
I still demand a rolling 30-year average.
Doing Bailey’s work for him, looks like +.13 vs previous 30 Augusts instead of +.16.
The “trend” is still within the normal year-to-year variation, so not a trend.