The following long term global temperatues measures
do not come ground stations. Note that every one of
them has a warming trend.

-- The Sea Surface Temperature, or SST, record
Here, from Hadley Centre, are the global sea surface
temperatures from 1850 to 2008. Please see:
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/te.../hadsst2gl.txt
The yearly means of these data are graphed he
http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/HadSST2gl.jpg

-- Two balloon records show this same surface level warming:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/ratpac/index.php
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/...?name=ratpac-a
The data are found in the "year" and "surf" columns of the "GLOBE"
section of this file:
http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/r...ual-levels.txt
These very robust global yearly mean ground data are graphed he
http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/RATPAC-A-Balloon.jpg
The global yearly mean ground data are graphed he
http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/RATPAC-A-Balloon.jpg

http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/tem...ll/angell.html
http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/ftp/trends...ell/global.dat
These global yearly mean ground data are graphed he
http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/Angell-Balloon.jpg

The data are found in the "year" and "surf" columns of the
"GLOBE" section of this file:
http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/r...ual-levels.txt

These very robust global yearly mean ground data are graphed he
http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/RATPAC-A-Balloon.jpg

-- The satellite record, in all its current interpretations,
shows that the air near the surface is warming too.
For background on the satellite temperature proxy please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satelli...e_measurements

The URL below is one of the more conservative records
from the University of Alabama at Huntsville.
http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/public/m.../tltglhmam_5.2
The global data are graphed he
http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/UAH-MSU.jpg

The Remote Sensing Systems Lower Troposphere (TLT) analysis
shows a 0.16K/Decade rise over the land and sea.
http://www.remss.com/data/msu/monthly_time_series/
RSS_Monthly_MSU_AMSU_Channel_TLT_Anomalies_Land_an d_Ocean_v03_2.txt
The data from 82.5N to 70S are graphed he
http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/RSS-MSU.jpg

-- The record of sea ice melting:
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/n_plot.html
http://nsidc.org/news/press/2007_sea...ssrelease.html
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/

-- The glacier retreat record:
http://nsidc.org/sotc/glacier_balance.html

-- The bore hole record:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globa...g/pollack.html

-- Rising sea level:
http://sealevel.colorado.edu/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:R...Level_Rise.png




On May 10, 6:51*pm, "ozonb" wrote:
Navy veteran confirms that Actic melt is nothing new.

Bad news for carbon crackpots.

May 9 2009

The following letter from John Brandt was triggered by the book "Is the US Surface
Temperature Record Reliable?" by Anthony Watts and published by the Heartland Institute.

The book contains more than 100 photos from a network of 1,221 climate-monitoring stations
overseen by the National Weather Service, a department of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration

Mr. Watts - a veteran of 25 years in broadcast meteorology - found monitoring stations so
incompetently positioned (e.g. next to the exhaust fans of air conditioning units) that 9
of every 10 stations likely are reporting higher or rising temperatures because of poor
siting, not because of rising US temperatures.

You can download a PDF version of Mr. Watts' study here.

Here's Mr. Brandt's letter:

I am John Brandt, age 81, who in 1945 served aboard the USCG Cutter Mojave in the North
Atlantic, home base Argentia, Newfoundland. Our mission was to chart ice bergs and ice
fields, and as radio operator sent by CW radio to Navy NWP who in turn notified all ships
at sea.

A New York friend had sent me your story by Anthony Watts regarding the falsehood of
temperature-recording stations relating to global warming.

I sent the following to my NY friend:

My six months charting icebergs and ice fields in the north atlantic aboard the USCG
cutter Mojave (I was radio opr) in 1945 is also important. I saw perhaps 50+ icebergs
ranging in size from 25 feet to a half mile in diameter! The ice fields were sometimes 3
miles in diameter and consisted of pieces of ice with 2 to 4 feet sticking above the
surface and all bunched together.

We would sail through the ice fields at 2 knots with the constant banging of the ice
against the bow and sides of the cutter. The longitude/lattitude was passed to me in the
radio shack, and I would send the locations of all by CW morse code to Navy in Argentia,
Newfoundland. They in turn would broadcast the info to all commercial ships at sea from NY
to England, etc.

All those ice fields and icebergs broke off the polar ice shelf. I was told by the old
timers aboard ship, it happens every year.

Listening to Al Gore, one would believe it just happened for the first time ever!

I believe the story of global warming drummed up by Al Gore is plain "Manure".

If someone could please send my email to Anthony Watts I could live the rest of my short
years in peace. The unreliable government temperature charts coupled with my personal
experience 64 years ago are proof positive that Mr Gore's beliefs are Not True.

Thanking you in advance

JOHN BRANDT

http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=3400

Warmest Regards

Bonzo