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I have been asked why I believe that there has been no global warming for the last decade or so. It has also been suggested that we've made it all up at UKIP HQ.
There are four organisations which provide global temperature data. Graphs from the data follow, with links to the data, so that you can see for yourself.
First, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).
GISS actually shows a slight increase over the period. But there may be good reasons for doubting it. If you follow Steve McIntyre's amazing blog, and his surfacestations.org project, you will have read about how this data may have been contaminated by the "urban heat island" effect, as well as a host of other problems with it. In any case, the other graphs simply don't agree with this one.
The Met Office now produce the UK's version of the data, which is also taken from ground-based weather station data.
As you can see, CRU shows exactly NO warming whatsoever over the era.
The University of Alabama in Huntsville produce data from satellites. This overcomes the problems of human error, and contamination from changes in the geography of a weather station site.
The UAH data shows a slight cooling.
Remote Sensing Systems also produce data from satellites.
This shows slightly more cooling.
I doubt that this will have any impact whatsoever on those who choose to believe the scare stories about polar bears melting, and demand that we should all eat lentils. I am getting less worried about such people, because, as the "Climategate" scandal goes on, and as more and more evidence that the IPCC does not live up to its reputation emerges, we don't need science to demonstrate that the whole thing is an extortionate scam. Read more
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