If you light a candle, put under your house thermostat, wait until it shows a 6 degree increase in temperature, is your house 6 degrees warmer? No, it is just that the temperature reading of your home thermostat has been contaminated by a local heat source.
The sensors used by United States Historical Climate Network show urban temperature higher then nearby rural temperature because of contamination of local human heat sources. Most of the 1221 sensors used to be in a rural environment, far away from human heat sources. Now most of the sensors have changed from a rural to a suburban or urban environment. As a result, only 11% of the sensors have an error of less then 1°C. Now 20% have an error between 1 & 2°C, 58% have an error between 2 & 5°C, and 11% have an error grater then 5°C. In other words, 89% of the ground based U. S. sensor data is now contaminated with human heat sources and I believe that this bad data is responsible for some of the 'hockey stick' in the published global warming graphs.
The 11% of U.S. land based sensors remaining in a rural environment, ocean sensors and sattelite data showed that 2008 was colder then 2007 that was colder then 2006. We know that sunspots had disappeared, meaning that the surface of the sun became cooler and the output of heat and light from the sun was less. As a result, all eight planets had cooled off. But now the sunspots have returned and these same sensors are again showing that we are now [2010] in a period of real global warming. Data that includes all sensor data does not show this cooling period, but rather, a more or less increase in Global Temperature. A graph using all World Sensors looks like this:
The raw data was provided by GLOBAL Land-Ocean Temperature Index in 0.01 degrees Celsius base period: 1951-1980 --- sources: GHCN 1880-06/2010 + SST: 1880-11/1981 HadISST1 --- 12/1981-06/2010 Reynolds v2 using elimination of outliers and homogeneity adjustment --- Notes: 1950 DJF = Dec 1949 - Feb 1950 --- Best estimate for absolute global mean for 1951-1980 is 14.0 deg-C
The monthly data from the sattellites was provided by Dr. Roy Spencer and is the UAH Globally Averaged Satellite-Based Temperature of the Lower Atmosphere.
The Ground/Ocean Global Mean was added to the ground/ocean table's centiCelcius and then converted to Fahrenheit. The monthly ground/ocean data is ploted in orange. The filtered ground/ocean data is ploted in blue. The monthly sattelite data is plotted in light green, The filtered sattelite data is plotted in red. Note the sattelite data is offset, [plotted at a lower temperature] for clarity.
The digital filter for smoothing both data sets is shown in green centered on 1900. The digital low pass filter is 47 [monthly] samples wide. A large filter for Excel. [raised CoSine window of Sin(x)/x]
Unfortunately I currently do not have access to composite data without the sensors that moved from a rural to a suburban or urban environment. Neither do I have access to composite data corrected for known temperature errors. But it is interesting to note that the sattelite data shows a temperature rise from 1980 to 2010 of about 0.5 degree Fahrenheit, whereas the ground/ocean data shows a temperature rise of about 0.8 degrees. I will assume the difference is due to the increasing urbanization of gound based sensors. In other words, I believe data from some ground based sensors to be contaminated with adjacent human heat sources.
Now that sun spots have returned, and the sun is increasing in temperature, all eight planets get warmer. With the additional heat, the solid carbon dioxide [dry ice] on the poles of Mars will sublime back into the Martian atmosphere. The Earth also gets warmer. And that includes our Oceans. But when the Oceans get warm, the Oceans release large quantities of carbon dioxide, as well as additional water vapor, into the our atmosphere. These are the two major Global Warming Gases. If you look at the published charts, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases after the Earth and its oceans have increased in temperature.
Burning hydrocarbons does release both water vapor and carbon dioxide [the two most significant greenhouse gasses] into the atmosphere, but the amount from power plants and vehicles is less than the amount released by nature. For a look at the numbers, please read: Greenhouse Gasses and then return. Also see Coal Mines on Fire, another significant source of CO2. Now we have had a new source of CO2 in the burning of oil from the 'Gulf Oil Spill'. And this was definitely caused by men not following proceedure in deep sea oil drilling.
Having both water vapor and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is essential to plant growth. Assuming good soil, water, and sunlight, a major limitation of plant growth is the lack of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. I have heard that plants in the ocean where there is plenty of minerals, water and carbon dioxide, can grow as much as a foot a day. Our atmosphere is now almost 0.04% CO2 and the result has been an increase in the growth rate of crops, forests and other vegitation. It amazes me that plants can use the almost 0.04% carbon dioxide to make food and release the oxygen into the atmosphere that is 21% O2. With the decreasing land mass used for growing vegatation, the increase in in both CO2 and H2O will help in the growing of food.
But before you get the wrong impression, I am for the reduction in the wasteful use of fuel. Not because I am worried about CO2, but because I am worried about running out of our limited supply of fuel. For this reason, I am an advocate for using small cars with fully inflated tires, and for driving at the speed limit or less. Anyone who complains about the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and then drives a large vehicle faster then the speed limit is a hypocrite. Those who complain about the high cost of gasoline, should be reminded that it is because of the dollar's loss of value as well as the increased demand for the gasoline.
With the start of this new global warming cycle. The Earth is again warming, including the oceans, that are again increasing their emission of greenhouse gas number one [water] and greenhouse gas number two [carbon dioxide]. This movement of CO2 from the oceans into the atmosphere should reduce the acidity of the oceans and increase the rate of crop growth. Provided, of course, that we can use the additional rain efficiently. After all, the demand for water will be far greater in a few years then it is even now.
You need to watch these vidioes on Normal Climate:
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If you take your favorite carbonated beverage, pour it into a pan, put it on the stove and heat it, what happens? Carbon dioxide comes out of solution and is released into the atmosphere. The ability of water to hold carbon dioxide diminishes quickly with increasing temperature.
It has been estimated that the amount of carbon dioxide in the Oceans is about two orders of magnitude greater then in our atmosphere. Some of our Oceans actually have lakes of carbon dioxide at their bottom.
Here is a very colorful Tutorial on the Chemistry of Global Warming on a Phoenix College web site. It gives the number behind the various sources of CO2. It also reminds us that when politicians talk about a reduction in CO2, they are talking about a reduction of carbon dioxide emission of power plants, vehicles, industrial & residential uses and not the total carbon dioxide emissions that would include the more significant emissions of volcanoes, forest fires and respiration of insects, birds and mammals including man.
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