Category:Observations: temperature records

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claims to have found evidence in paeloclimatic data that higher levels of atmospheric CO2 can cause or amplify an increase in global temperatures (IPCC, 2007-I, Chapter 6). The IPCC further claims to have evidence of an anthropogenic effect on climate in the earth’s temperature history during the past century (Chapters 3, 9), in the pattern (or “fingerprint”) of more recent warming (Chapter 9, Section 9.4.1.4), in data from land-based temperature stations and satellites (Chapter 3), and in the temperature records of the Artic region and Antarctica where models predict anthropogenic global warming should be detected first (Chapter 11, Section 8). In this chapter, we critically examine the data used to support each of these claims, starting with the relationship between CO2 and temperature in ancient climates.

The following pages are taken from Climate Change Reconsidered and can be used as a guide to get you through the basics of this category:

Antarctic

Arctic

Fingerprints

Paleoclimatic data

Past 1,000 Years

Satellite data

Urban heat islands

References

IPCC. 2007-I. Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor and H.L. Miller. (Eds.) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.