Dr. Roy Spencer introduced the updated and much corrected UAH atmospheric temperature data in his blog post Version 6.0 of the UAH Temperature Dataset Released: New LT Trend = +0.11 C/decade.  The new temperature anomaly data for the lower troposphere, mid troposphere and lower stratosphere are presently in beta form for comment. That is, they’re not official…yet.  I suspect the update will not go over well with the catastrophic-anthropogenic-global-warming crowd.  Links to the version 6.0 beta data are at the bottom of Roy’s post, which also contains a detailed discussion of the updates.  So if you have questions, please ask them at Roy Spencer’s blog through the above link.  This post is a simple data presentation.

3rd Highest Global Sea Ice For This Day – Well above one standard deviation.

25th Daily Record for Antarctic – 1.7 million above the 1981-2010 mean. 

Data: South / North

Andy DC dug up this 1993 NCDC document, which showed that US winter temperatures had remained essentially constant from 1896 to 1993.

That of course isn’t any use for funding, so they have since altered the data to make it appear to be warming.

The animation below shows how they cooled the past.

They used a pretty generic data tampering algorithm, of simply cooling the past linearly to create a non-existent warming trend.

By doing this, they managed to make the post-1920 cooling trend disappear, which is what political expediency requires.

But it is worse than it seems – since 1993, US winter temperatures have plummeted, while NCDC shows the US continuing to warm.

What percentage of zero warming is Mann-made?

1. Mostly Mann-made
2. Equally Mann-made and natural
3. Mostly natural
4. Not interested in troposphere temperatures. Only do Urban Heat Island temperatures

Forget the Middle East, Ukraine and Africa, the biggest security threat is climate fragility.   I’m sure it will be the term of choice when our inestimable Secretary of State picks it up at the G7.

Scientists warn that we are about to pass a global warming tipping point.

While we may not yet have reached the “point of no return”—when no amount of cutbacks on greenhouse gas emissions will save us from potentially catastrophic global warming—climate scientists warn we may be getting awfully close.

Have We Passed the Point of No Return on Climate Change? – Scientific American

This sounds bad, but is actually excellent news. In 1989 they only gave us until the year 2000 to stop global warming, so this is actually quite a nice reprieve.

Mercury News: Search Results

But it is even better than it seems! Forty years ago this month climatologists told us that unless we let them melt the polar ice caps, global cooling would kill us all.

denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf

So far, we have a total of 40 years of passing the global cooling/warming tipping point. But the news gets even better. Seventy…