So, I’m going to repost Tom Nelson’s ……
NOAA settled science: Earth at 58.24F in 2014 was allegedly hotter than Earth at 62.45F in 1997
NOAA Global Analysis- Annual 1997
The global average temperature of 62.45 degrees Fahrenheit for 1997 was the warmest year on record, surpassing the previous record set in 1995 by 0.15 degrees Fahrenheit
NOAA Global Analysis- Annual 2014
The average temperature for the year [2014] was 0.69°C (1.24°F) above the 20th century average of 13.9°C (57.0°F) [ie 58.24F] , beating the previous record warmth of 2010 and 2005 by 0.04°C (0.07°F).
Kinda, sorta renders all their idiotic “anomaly” graphs useless, don’t it? I mean, they don’t know what the average was, so, how is it that they can tell us how far off from the average we are?
About the only other thing I can say is …… WOW!!!! Talk about cooling the past!!!!
But, for some reason, it brings this Simon and Garfunkel classic to mind! Sing along!
h/t geran
suyts space 
wait a minute here….that’s about 4 degrees cooler!
That would completely wipe out all of global warming!!
LOL!!! Yep! Apparently, in 1997, we didn’t know how to read a thermometer, so, they re-readjusted our past!
Or, it could be that 1998 and 1999 were so cold as to drop the average by 4 degrees ….. or something.
Leftists make great artists, but lousy mathematicians.
Hint to “gummit” agencies: If you are going to lie, it’s important to erase your previous lies.
Note to warmists: NEVER ! EVER ! mention absolute temperatures! Absolute temperatures are the GIVEAWAY! You don’t WANT to help the climate deniers, you idiots!
If you notice, they are talking about anomalies and not temperature averages per se. 2014 has the largest anomaly and, therefore, is the warmest year. Apparently climatology has gone off the rails so far that lower average temperatures are meaningless. They are right about one thing: you can’t just average temperatures and get something meaningful.
Jim
No, they do both:
“The average temperature for the year was 0.69°C (1.24°F) above the 20th century average of 13.9°C (57.0°F), beating the previous record warmth of 2010 and 2005 by 0.04°C (0.07°F).”
They’ve done this before.
I noticed their carelessness in JAN 2014 in a comment; I said:
” http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2013/11/
“Global Highlights
The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for November 2013 was record highest for the 134-year period of record, at 0.78°C (1.40°F) above the 20th century average of 12.9°C (55.2°F).”
So we were at 12.9+0.78 = 13.68 deg C in NOV 2013.
So NCDC admits that in NOV 2013 the globe was coolest since beginning of Global Warming Research.
This Global Warming is sure a wicked thing.”
(For this statement I used a list of publications by warmists as reference which at various times gave various values for absiolute average global temperature
1988: 15.4°C
1990: 15.5°C
1999: 14.6°C
2004: 14.5°C
2007: 14.5°C
2010: 14.5°C
2012 14.0 °C
2013: 14.0°C)
My sources
http://notrickszone.com/2013/04/21/coming-ice-age-according-to-leading-experts-global-mean-temperature-has-dropped-1c-since-1990/
…and look, now the 20th century was 1 deg C warmer than it was last year, according to NOAA.
So Global Warming since 1900 is now 1 deg C less than it was last year.
Is NOAA preparing the flip to Global Cooling; reducing Global Warming by 1 deg C a year now?
You are absolutely and totally wrong and use 19th century science! Lol, you have not understood clima_t_ology at all!
Why do you think these are called anomalies? You have to use relative values!
The 62.45F from 1998 is wrong as you forgot to calculate relative to what year you need the temp value. As simple as that. In 10 years it will be down to 55- 56 something, lol.
You should not talk of things that you do not understand, you forgot the time quotient in your calculations! Absolute values are wrong, only when applying the special relativity adding the coefficient of time you get the right anomalies..
O/T btw, found this interesting post:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-02/uor-acc021615.php
“A close call of 0.8 light years:
Astronomers identify the closest known flyby of a star to our solar system: A dim star that passed through the Oort Cloud 70,000 years ago”
It’s very interesting. Thanks for posting.
Jim
Fascinating.