The NOAA graph below shows the average temperature in contiguous US at 54.84 degrees Fahrenheit for the period 1895 to 1987. This is 2.34 F warmer than the NOAA temperature data we have just published for the same period at 52.50 F. The US, number sixth in order of the world’s land mass, could well represent much of the world’s various climates within it’s borders. But you would still expect that the world’s temperature would be cooler on the whole because it contains polar regions, ice fields and the world’s oceans etc….but it is not.

The mean temperature at 54.84 in the above chart needs checking. It does not accord with the graph in the period 1895-1987 nor the chart further down showing a long term mean temperature slightly cooler than the graph below.

Scientists said in the study does not contradict an earlier report showing that within the “Lower 48? part of the United States, there has been no evidence of a warming trend over the last century. The 1987 study showed that the average temperature in the lower United States had fluctuated around a fairly stable century-long average of 52.5 degrees. Climatologists say the area, occupying 1.5% of the Earth’s surface, is too small to be representative of world trends.

However, Australia, with a slightly smaller land mass than the United States, has shown  global warming at the same rate as the rest of world.

In 1989, the New York Times admitted the US data released from NOAA failed to show a warming trend since 1895. Even in 1999, the temperature still trailed 1934 – James Hansen noted “The U.S. has warmed during the past century, but the warming hardly exceeds year-to-year variability. Indeed, in the U.S. the warmest decade was the 1930s and the warmest year 1934.”

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