If the USA isn't experencing any warming?

Question

Who is?

Here is a chart from NASA GISS that plots temperatures since 1880. If you enter these numbers in an Excel spreadsheet you will see that we are not hotter than ever before, it isn't getting hotter then in the past, and we haven't seen warmer temperatures in over 10 years.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.D.txt

The USA is still part of the globe.

So if the USA isn't getting any warmer, who is? Is it Europe, or Asia, or South America, or Antarctica?

Does anyone know of a site from NASA where I can get the raw data like the information on the above website?

Morey - Yes, you can find any graph to prove anything you want.

I like the raw numbers. The lack of them, and the inability of anyone to reference similar numbers means they don't exist, so the charts are just based on what some thought would look pretty.

Answer 1

It is because there is not Global Warming, let me change that there is no MAN made global warming. The earth's climate constantly changes albiet very slowly. When I was kid in the 70's we were about to have another ice age and pollution was the cause, now we have global warming and pollution is the cause. Could it be we are warming because the air is cleaner and more hits the ground?, Could it be because our only source of energy the SUN is hotter?

The Great Lakes were caused by glaciers, we had to have global warming because those glaciers are gone and we have some beautiful lakes now. Greenland is called Greenland because it use to be green, not frozen, so the world had to get colder. The world is constantly changing and we are very naive if we think that blink of eye in time that we are on this planet we are going to influence its climate.

Yes we need to good stewards of the earth and we all should not be wasteful. But compared to when our parents and grandparents were children we do not pollute nearly as much. My dad recalls when you could not see the sky in Pittsburgh, and Detroit and the rivers would actually catch on fire due to oil spills.

What US industry that is left is the cleanest in the world, instead of putting more Americans out of work we should not accept imports unless they are manufactured with similar environmental standards. This would put us an even playing field and force China, Inda, Asia, and South America to clean up their act.

Also CO2 is natural, we all produce it when we exhale, it is not pollution. Higher CO2 levels will stimulate plant growth which in turns stores the carbon as plant matter and emitts oxygen. A single large volcano erruption spews out more pollution in a day than all industry in a decade.

The Global Warming scare is about control, not science.

Keep up the good work looking at the data, and you will continue to prove to yourself that it is all bunch of hype.

Science is not a consensus or a feeling it is facts supported by undisputable data.

Answer 2

You like numbers? I'm surprised (but pleased) to hear it. So how does an old number cruncher like you explain the regression slopes in the data you yourself referenced? The one that shows that between 1880 and 2006 the US was warming at a rate of .5°C per century? Or how about the one that show that between 1979 and 2006, the rate had increased to 3° per century in the 48 states?

If you want data, try here:
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
... or here:
http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcrut3/
... or here:
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/anomalies/

If you take the trouble to actually look at the data -- and do real statistics, like regression, instead of cherry-picking individual outliers -- you will discover that the globe is getting warmer, both hemisperes individually are getting warmer, and the US is getting warmer. Read 'em and weep.

Answer 3

Global average data set

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2.txt

Took about 15 seconds to find. And the difference between the U.S. and global data sets is like, climate studies 101. Now on what basis do you make any claim of deep knowledge of this subject?

Regional temperature change graphic
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/USHCN.1999vs2005.gif

Edit:
I should have said it is like the first week of climate studies 101.

Answer 4

One theory I have heard is that pollution in industrialized nations sheilds some of the effects of global warming. I first read this at The Birch Aquarium in San Diego, which has an exhibit titled "Feeling the Heat: The Climate Challenge."

Here's an article from the web: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20030729/ai_n12701302

According to this article, global warming has already affected Africa, which is less industralized.

Answer 5

NOAA collects all that information and I believe you can find it on this website:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html

I hope it's helpful.

And you also have to look at the global water temperatures and how they've changed because it greatly affects our weather patterns.

Answer 6

I'm not sure what that table specifically is, but if you poke around that nasa.gov site, you'll find plenty of plots, charts and maps that will scare the heck out of you.

Do you feel that you know something that the 2500 top environmental climatologists in the world don't know?

Answer 7

It is the North pole which seen the most significance increase in temperature.

Answer 8

Most of the rest of the Northern Hemisphere, including Europe and Asia.

The Arctic is warming fastest, which is why the ice is disappearing.

The Southern hemisphere is mostly warming. It's a bit slower, probably beacuse there's a lot more ocean there, and oceans warm more slowly than land.

The Antarctic is warming around the edges, but not in the middle, because of the ozone hole.

Answer 9

cool