From: kym@kymhorsell.com   
      
   On This Day.   
      
   Around this time in 1998 the switch-over between different families   
   of satellite instruments (MSU -> AMUS) combined with a gear change in the   
   Earth's climate to produce average global land, ocean and land+ocean   
   temps not seen since Fred Flinstone gradyated highschool.   
   For ever after -- well up until a couple years later in many casse --   
   these freak measurments was used as a yardstick to judge   
   the depth of the current Great New Ice Age.   
      
   On another Earth like planet  -- but with rules recognised by   
   >=97% of working scientists -- present La Nina (significantly   
   colder E Pac than normal) conditions are significantly warmer than the   
   Super El Nino (sig warmer E Pac than normal) of 1998   
      
   --   
   CO2 has increased by 40% in the past few decades, with no   
   observable effect on temperatures.  What is stabilizing the system?   
   -- Bill Ward, 24 May 2012   
      
      
   Year	av ocean avL+O     av land   
   	      (aka O+10%) (aka O+30%)   
   	(deg C rel NOAA  baseline aka ~1980s avgs)   
   2000	0.1523	0.2469	0.4010   
   2001	0.2481	0.3952	0.6357   
   2002	0.2741	0.4299	0.6840   
   2003	0.3706	0.4838	0.6690   
   2004	0.3588	0.4271	0.5383   
   2005	0.4100	0.5647	0.8189   
   2006	0.3811	0.5233	0.7564   
   2007	0.2945	0.5387	0.9394   
   2008	0.2615	0.4120	0.6582   
   2009	0.3695	0.4508	0.5842   
   2010	0.4274	0.6244	0.9481   
   2011	0.2865	0.4469	0.7111   
   2012	0.3671	0.5031	0.7269	<-- Bill Ward   
   2013	0.4078	0.5352	0.7441   
   2014	0.5665	0.6262	0.7233   
   2015	0.7044	0.8810	1.1695   
   2016	0.7294	0.9605	1.3388   
   2017	0.6692	0.8656	1.1873   
   2018	0.6182	0.7380	0.9345   
   2019	0.7531	0.8899	1.1136   
   2020(*)	0.7296	1.1557	1.8466   
      
           +.3625  +.6526  +1.1197	(rel to Bill Ward temperatures)   
      
   (Sources: NOAATEMP).   
      
   (*) 1/2 complete.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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