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So, your link says that 2014 was in a statistical, er, dead-heat with 2005 and 2010. But the NYT's graph show's 2014 is noticeably above 2005 and 2010, certain
by danielweber 12y ago
So, your link says that 2014 was in a statistical, er, dead-heat with 2005 and 2010. But the NYT's graph show's 2014 is noticeably above 2005 and 2010, certainly not just a hundredth of a degree higher. What's the resolution?
- lotsofmangos 12y agoBest thing is to go to an actual source. The NOAA has it as 4 hundredths of a degree higher. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/ http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/ "The year 2014 was the warmest year across global land and ocean surfaces since records began in 1880. The annually-averaged temperature was 0.69°C (1.24°F) above the 20th century average of 13.9°C (57.0°F), easily breaking the previous records of 2005 and 2010 by 0.04°C (0.07°F). This also marks the 38th consecutive year (since 1977) that the yearly global temperature was above average. Including 2014, 9 of the 10 warmest years in the 135-year period of record have occurred in the 21st century. 1998 currently ranks as the fourth warmest year on record. The 2014 global average ocean temperature was also record high, at 0.57°C (1.03°F) above the 20th century average of 16.1°C (60.9°F), breaking the previous records of 1998 and 2003 by 0.05°C (0.09°F). Notably, ENSO-neutral conditions were present during all of 2014. The 2014 global average land surface temperature was 1.00°C (1.80°F) above the 20th century average of 8.5°C (47.3°F), the fourth highest annual value on record."