Even before our December numbers are in, we can now say that 2018 will be the sixth warmest year in the UAH satellite measurements of global-average lower atmospheric temperatures, at +0.23 deg. C (+0.41 deg. F) above the thirty-year (1981-2010) average.
The following plot ranks all of the years from warmest to coolest, with the ten warmest and ten coolest years indicated:
The first (1979) and last (2018) years in the record are indicated in purple.
2018 is also the 40th year of satellite data for monitoring global atmospheric temperatures.
We are currently working on Version 6.1 of the dataset, which will have new diurnal drift corrections.
Preliminary results suggest that the resulting linear warming trend over the 40 years (+0.13 C/decade) will not change substantially, and thus will remain considerably cooler than the average rate of warming across the IPCC climate models used for energy policy, CO2 emissions reductions, and the Paris Agreement.
Read more at Dr. Roy’s Blog
I’m looking at 2016, 2017, 2018 — as a sequence. Not nearly enough to show a ‘trend’, I wouldn’t bet cash on it – but …..
2016 was a year with a very strong El Nino which caused much warmer temps than normal. And as a La Nina took over it took two years to break the warm temps from the El Nino. So nothing too surprising although the Warming Pushers would say 2016 was a harbinger of what’s going to happen due to CO2 continuing to rise.
The scary climate con game is built on massively biased bull shit climate models .
When the models consistently grossly over state warming either a predetermined outcome is being $ bought or the models are full of holes . Either way it is not worth spending $trillions to fight a ghost so some gold diggers can screw the public .
Model the hollowing out of the middle class to its natural conclusion and you’ll see some real warming from thermal nuclear .
People are fed-up being fleeced by BS virtue signals and self dealing con-men .
Governments are just to cowardly to rein in nanny state funding and would rather
shake down middle and lower income earners .
Separately Mr . Dress Up in Canada believes budgets balance themselves and now he has punted that down the road 19 years to 2040 . Hmm ..
China arrests 3 innocent Canadians and Mr. Dress Ups response ? Huff and puff .
How about closing the seven immigration offices and rebalancing immigration ?
That balance word is a problem for globalist virtue signalers .
“Gold diggers can screw the public”??? Misogyny. tsk tsk.
Mr. Dress Up has a walk-on part in Canadian history. I don’t think he’ll stick around for very long in his next role, leader of the opposition.