EARTH TEMPERATURE FOREVER 59 F
One of the scientists, Dr. James E. Hansen of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Institute for Space Studies in Manhattan, in 1988, said he used the 30-year period 1950-1980, when the average global temperature was 59 degrees Fahrenheit, as a base to determine temperature variations. This was remarkably accurate given the state of the art that existed in 1988, the only difference being that NASA, in its Planetary Fact Sheet, published February 15, 2022, now says that the mean temperature of the earth is still at 59 F (15 C).
Average annual temperatures were actually calculated on variations from the world’ temperature of 59 F from 1880 through to 1995, The NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, shows the average 1995 temperature at 59.7 degrees, slightly ahead of 1990 as the warmest year since record-keeping began in 1866. But the difference is within the margin of sampling error, and the two years essentially finished neck and neck source New York Times.
L.A. Times Archives July 14, 1996
How hot was it? Last year was the hottest year on record, according to NASA’s top world temperature taker. The globe’s average temperature for 1995 was an estimated 59.8 degrees Fahrenheit, barely edging out 1990 and about 0.8 degree above the 1950-1980 average. That’s according to James E. Hansen, writing in the June 15 issue of Geophysical Research Letters. It was Hansen who first brought the threat of global warming to national attention, telling a congressional committee in 1988 that he was “99%” sure that greenhouse warming was underway. “Over the next few years I would, with a pretty high degree of confidence, expect the global temperatures to exceed even the 1995 level,” he said in an interview..
Phil Jones, chief climate scientist at CRU East Anglia, who posted an average global temperature of 59.612 F in 1988, 0.612 F above a baseline of 59 F, was also involved in the lowering of global temperatures, in conjunction with the WMO in 1998.
None of the WMO reports, which began in 1993, would reveal what their average temperature for the baseline period of 1961-1990 was until 2004 when it revealed it was 14 C.
The original baseline period of 1951-1980 was reinstated by NASA in 2022, but the 59 F, the average temperature temperature for that thirty year period, that NASA had been using for more than 100 years, was lowered to 57 F (14 C ) to match the WMO data and show the one degree Celsius of Warming required.
Excerpt below from WORLD OF CHANGE….. NASA Earth Observatory 2022
The maps above show temperature anomalies in five-year increments since 1880. (Click on the arrow to run the animation.) These are not absolute temperatures, but changes from the norm for each area. The data reflect how much warmer or cooler each region was compared to a base period of 1951-1980. (The global mean surface air temperature for that period was 14°C (57°F), with an uncertainty of several tenths of a degree.)
Excerpts from the 1988 attachment below:
The average temperature around the world in 1988 was the highest since reliable records began nearly a century
ago, British scientists reported today. Scientists from the British Meteorological Office and the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit said that last year’s temperature results continued a pattern of record high temperatures throughout the 1980’s that was reported last year.
Dr. Phil Jones, a climatologist at East Anglia, said global temperatures rose on average about one degree Fahrenheit since the beginning of the century.
He said the six warmest years on record were, in order, 1988, 1987, 1983, 1981, 1980 and 1986.
The British readings showed that the average global temperature in 1988 was 0.612 degrees Fahrenheit higher than the long-term average for the period 1950 through 1979, which is a base for comparing global temperatures. The average worldwide temperature for that 30-year period is roughly 59 degrees Fahrenheit, the British researchers said. The 1988 average temperature was 0.018 degrees higher than the average for 1987, the previous high year.
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The archived data they now refer to could only have been made up to suit the agenda because it does not match any of the above temperatures. It could hardly be said that the data from 80’s and 90’s were all wrong and had to be adjusted due to some particular reason that they won’t reveal.
Now you know why the left wing teachers target school children.
Our family, from Ormond Victoria, had been regular visitors to Sydney during the 60’s and 70″s and never got sun burned at Manly beach but in recent years my brother who recently spent a fortnight there got badly burnt…..makes you think it might be something else other than global warming.