Sunday, July 6, 2014

A Decade of Modest Cooling

Forbes reports the findings of a National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration unit, the U. S. Climate Reference Network. "A network of 114 pristinely sited temperature stations spread out fairly uniformly throughout the United States," USCRN was established in 2005.
According to the USCRN temperature readings, U.S. temperatures are not rising at all – at least not since the network became operational 10 years ago. Instead, the United States has cooled by approximately 0.4 degrees Celsius, which is more than half of the claimed global warming of the twentieth century.

The USCRN data are entirely consistent with – and indeed lend additional evidentiary support for – the global warming stagnation of the past 17-plus years.